Word: slating
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...only disappointment for Kaunda was that U.N.l.P.'s European and Asian candidates failed to win any of the ten legislative seats reserved for non-Africans. They went instead to an all-white slate entered by the National Progress Party, headed by John Roberts, a former minister in a previous, European-dominated government, who predicted nonetheless: "Dr. Kaunda's Cabinet will be a very able one, probably the best in black Africa...
Nixon refused to comment on re ports that a slate of delegates pledged to him would be entered in the New Hampshire primary. Even if it was, he would almost certainly refuse to campaign actively. He has no real base of operations: he cannot count on New York (it's Rockefeller territory), and he has few friends in California because of his humiliating 1962 loss to Democrat Pat Brown for Governor, his ungraceful acceptance of defeat, and his change of residence to New York. As for most of the rest of the country, the view of Colorado...
...around the U.S., Negroes themselves ran for office, with mixed success. In Lexington, Ky., Harry N. Sykes, a bowling alley operator and onetime basketball player for the Harlem Globetrotters, became the first Negro ever elected to the city commission. In Essex County (Newark), N.J., a militant Negro-Puerto Rican slate ran as third-party "New Frontier Democrats," failed to win any offices but trimmed votes enough from regular Democratic candidates to help several underdog Republicans get elected. (The Democrats had a bad day generally in New Jersey: the Republicans won control of both houses of the state legislature...
...most talked about in France these days as the challenger to run against De Gaulle. Though he has proved himself staunchly anti-Communist in the rough and tumble of Marseille politics, Defferre tacitly accepted Communist support during last year's voting for Parliament in order to give his slate a better chance against Gaullist candidates (three out of five Socialists in his department did win). Chief supporter of the unity maneuver is Defferre's noted fellow Socialist, ex-Premier Guy Mollet, who for years rigorously attacked the Reds as being "not left, but East," then did a significant...
...closely fought contests against Dartmouth, Crimson football teams recorded one victory and one defeat yesterday. The freshman squad, preserving an undefeated slate, marked their third victory of the season 27-20, while the JV's lost...