Word: alaskas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alaska (3 electoral votes): Strong labor and solid support for Democratic public-power projects. KENNEDY...
...Eisenhower Eisenhower Republican: conservative on the central domestic question of the role of Government in national life, liberal on civil rights, internationalist in foreign relations. As a Congressman, he took several stands that the Eisenhower Administration later adopted and translated into law: civil rights legislation, statehood for Alaska and Hawaii, construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway, relinquishment of federal claims to control of the tidelands. As a freshman Congressman, Nixon supported Harry Truman's program of aid to Communist-menaced Greece and Turkey, and he has remained a steadfast backer of foreign...
...Senate for at least two years. It is mathematically possible but politically inconceivable for the G.O.P. to take over. Ten of the Senate seats are Southern and automatically Democratic (Georgia's Richard Russell and South Carolina's Strom Thurmond are running unopposed). In six other states-Alaska, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Oklahoma-the Democratic candidates are so far ahead that only a Nixon landslide could beat them. The Republicans are shoo-in favorites in two states- New Hampshire and Nebraska. The real fights are for these 16 slots...
...Alaska: Sourdoughs are predominantly Democratic and Kennedy...
...very serious statement," retorted Thompson. "Do you mean you would shoot down planes flying over international waters in the Black Sea?" Backing off, Khrushchev replied that he only meant Russia would shoot down any planes that flew along Soviet borders. "You send ships along our coasts and planes over Alaska," snapped Thompson. "We aren't interested in Alaska," said Khrushchev piously and then, abruptly, shifted to a renewal of his familiar de mand for a U.S. apology over the U-2 incident. Gesturing as if to stomp on Ambassador Thompson's foot, he declared: "If I step...