Word: closing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surprisingly, Oregon, which went for Nixon in 1960, was for him again. Nixon had 55 per cent to Humphrey's 37, and Wallace made a showing of 8 per cent. Senator Wayne Morse, long an outspoken dove, was behind in a close race with Robert Packwood. Morse seems to have hurt his chances badly in an eleventh-hour debate wiht Packwood...
...Close throughout the evening, Missouri finally fell into Humphrey's camp, with Wallace getting a surprisingly low percentage. Lt. Gov. Thomas Eagleton, a Democratic dove, defeated moderate conservative Thomas Curtis by a modest margin. Incumbent Gov. Warren E. Hearns swept to an easy victory over Republican challenger Lawrence K. Roos...
...close for a while, but Nixon finally pulled away from Wallace in the Volunteer State and nailed down its 11 electoral votes. With 90 per cent of its precincts in, Nixon led Wallace 38 to 34, with Humphrey a poor third at 28 per cent...
...labor's power to bargain. It provides the only impartial supervision for the organizing elections that decide if a plant is to become union. Without a watchdog, unions could hardly win an election, for an employer's mere suggestion that if the union came in he might close down business is often enough to keep workers from voting for the union...
...Wisconsin Board of Regents, which governs the University of Wisconsin in much the same way that the California Regents control Berkeley, met over the weekend and passed a resolution condemning the Daily Cardinal for using "obscene and abusive language." The Regents have threatened to close down the Cardinal presses--which are in the University School of Journalism--unless the Cardinal submits a statement of policy acceptable to the Regents that will serve as a control over further Cardinal language...