Word: closing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...question about Richard M. Nixon − in fact, the question that would be asked of any man about to be tested in the White House-is whether he is capable of coming close to that ideal. He faces the immensely difficult problem of reconciling an alienated left and an uneasy right, of bringing together Negroes and young people, Wallace followers and middle-class Americans who feel an ever more crushing burden of taxes. He has yet to persuade a great number of citizens that he is wholly to be trusted. His narrow victory may complicate the task. "The problem will...
...outset of a campaign that progressed from disarray to the brink of disaster, Hubert Horatio Humphrey confessed to close aides: "I'm dead." He was down so far he had no place to go but up. And up he went-up from a 16-point deficit in the polls, up from the chaos of the Democratic Convention. When he bade good night to loyal Democratic Party workers in the ballroom of the Leamington Hotel in Minneapolis at 2:30 a.m. on Nov. 6, the Vice President was racing neck and neck against Richard Nixon. Crucial states were still teetering...
...undergone a slight shift to the right. The Republicans gained a net of at least four seats, reducing the Democrats' edge from 63-37 to 59-41?or perhaps even 58-42. The G.O.P. picked up seats in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida, Maryland, Arizona and Oklahoma, and was close to another in Oregon. The Democrats toppled Republicans in California and Iowa. The new Senate will be a little more conservative in dealing with federal spending and controls, civil rights, gun restrictions, crime bills, student disorders and poverty programs. The right-wing coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats, which...
Short Coattails. Quite a handful of new Senators will be more conservative than the men whom they replaced (see box opposite). Among those conservatives are Alabama's former Lieutenant Governor James Allen, a close pal of George Wallace, and such Republicans as Arizona's Barry Goldwater, Oklahoma's Henry Bellmen and Kentucky's Marlow Cook...
Pike and his son, as the bishop readily admits, had not been close for much of the boy's life. While his father kept busy with church affairs, young Jim as a teen-ager was turning on to the hippie way of life. In his freshman year at San Francisco State College, he moved out of the family home for a pad in the Hashbury, where he experimented with marijuana, peyote, LSD, and Romilar. In 1965, Pike was granted a six-month sabbatical to study theology and church history at Cambridge. He invited his son to accompany...