Word: alaskas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just how narrow the Kennedy victory was could be seen in the arithmetic: including shaky California and Illinois, Kennedy had won 332 electoral votes; Nixon, with razor-close Alaska, had 191; the popular-vote spread was a hairline 279,000. It was so close that Republican National Chairman Thruston Morton called for a recount of the votes in Kennedy-edged Texas, Illinois, Delaware, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and South Carolina. Some Republicans even dared hope that the recounts might still add up to a Nixon victory (but Nixon disassociated himself from the whole project...
...Republicans might well wonder whether defeat came because Dwight Eisenhower had failed to dramatize the real gains of his Administration, or whether one or two more presidential speeches might have made the difference. The Kennedy forces would re-examine their overconfidence in places such as Ohio and Wisconsin and Alaska...
...Kennedy's popular plurality slid below the million mark for the first time in hours. NBC figured that Kennedy was only one electoral vote short of the 269 needed to win. It was so close that the nation could just possibly go the way Alaska went-and Alaska, with 25% of the votes counted, was 7,383 for Kennedy, 7,007 for Nixon. California vote counters struggled with map-sized paper ballots and warned that the final score might not be posted for another 24 hours. The TV pundits began to talk of 1916, when the U.S. awakened...
Wyoming, Washington. California, the Midwest and Alaska-not with too much hope of winning Alaska's three electoral votes, but to keep his acceptance-speech promise to campaign in all 50 states. In Wyoming, to keep this promise, the pilot of his chartered Boeing 707 had to land in a snowstorm. Nixon, buoyed by Ike's support, told-his audiences that he felt a "tide"' running in his direction, promised "one of the greatest victories in terms of electoral votes in the history of America.'' Increasing the cutting edge of his adjectives, he punched hard...
...problem still remaining is to prove that no natural phenomenon will look like a space test to Westervelt's detectors. The model at Los Alamos has already passed one test: it is not fooled by lightning. Next month it will be moved to Fairbanks, Alaska to see whether it cries a false bomb scare when a strong aurora shines in the night sky. Only if it can distinguish a nuclear explosion from all natural events will the detector be recommended for international test watching...