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Esposito had good reason to invoke the smoke-filled rooms-and the grand old names-of the past. The slate of party regulars he had so painstakingly helped put together had just been spectacularly smashed by Democratic insurgents, who managed to find fresh and personal ways of appealing to the electorate. The key results...
Cabot, on the other hand, will not be able to devote full time to the portfolio until he and the treasurer's office complete their efforts to establish a new slate for Harvard financial management...
Youthful Veterans. Describing the committee to reporters last week, McCarthy avoided using the word party. There will be no conventions, primaries or full slate of candidates. The committee's key staffers are youthful veterans of McCarthy's 1968 presidential bid; they share his mistrust of the party system and hope to lure independent voters to their cause. Party or not, the organization will give the quixotic Mc Carthy a political platform-if it can raise enough money. So far the committee has a mere $30,000, half from Detroit Lions President (and 1968 McCarthy backer) William Clay Ford...
...President in 1976, clear losers were those Republicans who had been cranking up for a run at their party's 1976 presidential nomination. Illinois Senator Charles Percy, a liberal Republican who had already spent about $180,000 campaigning for the top spot on the party's 1976 slate, said that his candidacy has been put "on the back burner and maybe into the deep freeze." Similarly, other leading Republicans who remained untainted while the Watergate scandal was under way have ironically been victimized by the end of the affair. California Governor Ronald Reagan and New York...
Nonetheless, the L.D.P. seems on the verge of winning again. Its surprising strength is due to two factors: 1) the failure of the main opposition groups-the Socialists, Communists and neo-Buddhist Komeito (Clean Government) Party-to get together on a common slate, mainly because of the Socialists' fear of being engulfed by the smaller but better-organized Communists, and 2) the ability of the L.D.P. to outspend its opponents on campaign rallies and posters. As the Japanese say, "Go to, yon raku" (Five wins, four loses)-meaning that a candidate who can spend 500 million yen ($1.78 million...