Word: alaskas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Salt Lake City most likely would have fallen to the G.O.P. if Governor Calvin Rampton did not have two more years to serve. Of all the West's Democratic gubernatorial candidates, only Incumbent John Burns in Hawaii survived the pervasive Republican wind. Another possible Democratic winner is Alaska's William Egan, who withdrew an early concession in hopes that a recount and a tally of absentee ballots would return him to office...
...less significant were Republican gains in secondary statewide races, legislatures and courthouses. Democratic majorities were transmuted into Republican majorities in both houses of the legislatures in Alaska, Arizona and Utah. The G.O.P. also won complete control of a divided legislature in Colorado, half of previously all-Democratic legislatures in Washington, Oregon and Montana...
...more visible, however, than those in Washington, and are perennially harried by aggrieved voters. Partly as a result of introducing a sales tax, Robert Smylie, dean of U.S. Governors, lost out in Idaho's Republican primary in August. He was joined last week by incumbent Democrats in Alaska, Arizona, California and Nevada. Three of the losers-Alaska's Egan, California's Brown and Nevada's Grant Sawyer-also were trying to surmount the voters' antipathy to third terms...
Worth the Fare? After an overnight stop and a political breakfast rally in Anchorage, Alaska, the President returned to Washington 17 days and seven nations after he had left. A smallish claque of Government workers was on hand and a huge WELL DONE, MR. PRESIDENT banner rippled in the wind-lashed rain at Dulles International Airport. The President noted wryly: "We had perfect weather until we landed in the U.S. But that shows what happens in an election year...
...ALASKA GOVERNOR Egan (D)* uncertain Hickel (R) U.S. SENATOR Bartlett (D)* (winner) McKinley...