Word: belt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...states-Florida, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia-that Dwight Eisenhower carried in both 1952 and 1956. By dimming Nixon's prospects in the South, the Kennedy-Johnson ticket confronted him with a tough problem in electoral-vote arithmetic. Even if Nixon can overcome farmer discontent and carry the farm belt, he cannot win the election unless he can also beat Kennedy in some of the big industrial states east of the Mississippi. To do that despite the Catholic bloc voting for Kennedy that showed up in primaries, Nixon will have to 1) appeal to Negroes and 2) wring...
Profit & Loss. Nixon's running mate will probably be husky, handsome Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and widely known because of his televised battles with Soviet U.N. delegates. A New England patrician (TIME cover, Aug. 11, 1958), Lodge would have little farm-belt appeal, but he would add plenty of foreign policy luster to the ticket if the election fell in a time of international crisis...
Elmer Gantry (United Artists) arrived accompanied by cannonades of publicity indicating that this version of Sinclair Lewis' 1927 novel about tent-show Bible belt religion is under concentrated attack from any number of men of the cloth...
...storms began in early April, when hot, dry winds off the Central Asian plateau, melting the skimpy snow cover, swept across a 1,500-mile belt extending from the Caspian Sea through the Caucasus, southern Ukraine and Crimea to Moldavia. The parched earth turned to dust, then rose in sun-obscuring clouds...
...forth in 1956 ("How long, oh how long, America?"). Perhaps as a hint of things to come. Church last week managed to pack two cliches into a single sentence. He intended to "pull no punches" in his keynote speech, he vowed, but there would be no "hitting below the belt...