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Daley was critical of the alternate slate of 59 delegates, which bumped him from the Democratic National Convention. He said, however, he would cooperate with the slate led by Alderman William Singer if Singer's group supported Democrats at the local level as well as at the national...
Kenneth Elstein in outlook and experience is in many ways typical of the young McGovernites. A high school math teacher, Elstein began his political experiment last October when he read a short item in the New York Times describing a professor's effort to put together a McGovern slate. Elstein volunteered. Strictly obeying the new party guidelines, Elstein and the other McGovernites held open caucuses to decide their slate, which included Elstein and seven others...
Support. One difficult problem in the heavily Jewish district was persuading voters that McGovern was not, as rumored, opposed to aid for Israel. When the votes were counted, the McGovern slate had swept the district, Elstein running third with 23,591 votes. The top candidate of Brooklyn Democratic Leader Meade Esposito received only...
California is more a state of mind than a slate of the union, and outsiders view the complexities of California politics with commendable apprehension. But despite the atypical and unpredictable nature of its politics-or perhaps because of it-the conventional West Coast wisdom is that what California is today, the nation will be tomorrow. The nation's most populous state is a melting pot of about 20,000,000 people: 9% Mexican-American, 7% black and 2% Oriental. Foreigners, including those from England, Germany, Italy and Canada, make up about 25% of the population. There...
...Alan Pifer, the foundation's president, wrote to chairmen of the firms emphasizing the "substantial importance" of the issues. Trustees of the United Methodist Church's Glide Foundation ($6 million) wrote to each of the companies in the Glide portfolio that they would support management's slate of directors only if it included women and "minority-group" representatives. Said Roger Kennedy, financial vice president of the Ford Foundation, which voted for management in several major contests: "How we voted is much less important than what we communicated to management...