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...Yale, and at last he has disclosed his choice for one of the parts. Buckley announced that he will run next spring as a petition candidate for the 18-man Yale Corporation, the university's governing body, in opposition to the corporation's own slate of candidates. "Somebody's got to protest the almost total absence of conservatives on the faculty," said Buckley, who ran as a Conservative for mayor of New York City in 1965. If he wins, Buckley will become the corporation's first elected Catholic and the only petition candidate to succeed other...
Accompanying Lowenstein was Gerald Hill, chairman of the liberal California Democratic Council, who assured the student Democrats that his organization's anti-Johnson slate would triumph in the 1968 Presidential Primary...
...first public speech at Harvard since assuming the ADA post, Galbraith told an audience of Harvard-Radcliffe Young Democrats at Burr Hall that they should work to elect a slate of peace delegates to next summer's Democratic National Convention in Chicago...
Perhaps the most striking proof of the election's essential honesty was the contest for the 60-seat Senate. With the 480 candidates blocked off in groups of ten to a slate, the voters had to choose six from among the 48 slates. On the theory that it would ensure him a loyal majority in the Senate, the complex system was devised by Ky himself last spring when he expected to be the presidential candidate. But the voters were not amenable. Ky personally backed eleven slates, and all but one of them lost. Thieu promoted two slates, and both...
After the press conference, Thieu and Ky went further to deny sabotage. In a letter to the candidates, they pointed out that each slate was given $45,000 for campaign travel and literature. The law requires no more. Use of government planes and cars, the letter said, is a fringe benefit supplied out of government "good will." Wryly the letter concluded: "In the DMZ area there are not as many conveniences as in rear areas. If conditions are not as expected, you are requested please not to consider these little things as important...