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...Canton, Ohio, is such a city. A town of about 120,000, it attracted both Nixon and Kennedy this fall. Canton is a steel town, and Darrell Mansell, editorial writer for the Canton Repository says, "This is a strong union area, not in a happy condition. There are a lot of short work weeks, lay-offs, and discontented people." According to Mansell, Eisenhower's "hero" status was a great advantage in Canton and Stark County, but "the New Deal made Canton Democratic...
With the Democratic appeal to labor and the excellent record of DiSalle's administration going for him, Mansell says, Kennedy should take Canton by a healthy margin. "An issue we do not permit to be discussed in the Repository," religion, should also work in Kennedy's favor in Cuyahoga County and the southern part of the state, Mansell says...
...important items on the plus side. Unemployment eased more than seasonally in September, dropped about 400,000 to 3,400,000. (But the Labor Department last week added five cities to the list [now 42] of those with unemployment of more than 6%: Birmingham, San Diego, Muskegon, Mich., Canton, Ohio and Jersey City.) September new car sales jumped 20.8% in the strongest increase over 1959 of any month this year...
...biggest news out of Red China came from the railway stations. In Peking, Canton, Shanghai and Shenyang, northbound trains were suddenly clogged with unaccustomed passengers. For a fortnight, trainload after trainload of Soviet technicians and their families have been leaving for home with all their belongings -but without any farewell fanfare in the press or happy fraternal rallies at the station. Yugoslav Correspondent Branko Bogunovic, who sent out the story of the exodus, wrote: "The official explanation is that the Soviet experts are leaving after the expiration of their contracts. But other versions are circulating in Peking which throw...
...Shanghai banker, Pei was born in Canton in 1917, emigrated to the U.S. in 1935 to study architecture at M.I.T. "I did not know what architecture really was in China," he says. "At that time, there was no difference between an architect, a construction man, or an engineer." Graduated in 1939, Pei volunteered to work for the National Defense Research