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Even with a huge turnout, though, Rocky's best chance of overtaking Barry's lead might well be in a genuine "stop-Goldwater" coalition. On the eve of the Oregon election, Lodge's campaign managers were planning to help their own man by appealing to Lodge-leaning...
The pursuit of compromise made the conference sometimes seem more like a political convention than a church meeting, as delegates caucused in hotel corridors and committee rooms to work out approvable resolutions. In the end, conference moderates, led by such powerful Methodist figures as Lawyer Charles Parlin and the Rev...
Like Oxnam or McConnell, Kennedy has never been afraid to discuss political and social issues from the pulpit, but he picks his controversies with care. "A fellow that's shooting off his mouth all the time-nobody listens to him after a while," he says. In 1957 Kennedy led...
The strikes put a high price on prosperity for Australian businessmen. A three-day strike by 328 pilots in February cost the Qantas airline $675,000 in revenue, and recent strikes at New South Wales steel plants meant a production loss of 36,000 tons of steel worth $2,250...
The critics stress the danger of a backwash of resentment against the militancy of a plan to constipate movement of traffic through the city. The stall-in, they argue, will alienate moderates from the civil rights struggle. This would make the city officials more hesitant to act and could reinforce...