Word: beatness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clearly cut across all religious lines. In Pennsylvania Democrat David Lawrence became the first Catholic Governor in history. In California Catholic Pat Brown was elected Governor by a landslide. And in Minnesota, where Catholicism had long been considered a fatal handicap outside St. Paul and Minneapolis, Catholic Eugene McCarthy beat Republican Senator Edward Thye, a Lutheran (with a Catholic wife), by 57,000 votes. In New York, where the Catholic vote is supposed to be powerful, the voters pulled a switch, defeated Democratic Senatorial Candidate Frank Hogan, a Catholic. Said Iowa's Congressman Coad, himself a Disciples of Christ...
Before switching to his private plane at Caracas' Maiquetia Airport last week, he chatted in Spanish with a friendly crowd of 200 diplomats and newsmen. Was he out to beat Vice President Richard Nixon for the presidential nomination? "I'm not running against him or anyone else now," he said. Was he sent to improve U.S.Venezuelan relations? Rockefeller laughed. "No," he said...
...forecasting was done by the New York Times, which sent reporter survey teams to 13 states in the pre-election weeks, went back to some areas for last-minute rechecks. While the Times carefully qualified many of its bets, e.g., by forecasting that New York Democrat Frank Hogan would beat Republican Kenneth Keating in the New York Senate race unless Rockefeller's plurality exceeded 200,000 (it was 557,000), the paper's far-ranging forecasts were more right than wrong...
...Wisconsin (5-1-1)-took an early lead, still held on to beat Northwestern...
Even this elementary form of crystalball gazing may have its hazards, for Yovicsin refuses to write off either of the bottom two teams as potentially dangerous. In fact, he claims that on a given Saturday any of the Ivy eight could still beat any of the others...