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...much of the Old Confederacy, has become respectable. G.O.P. national tickets carried the state in 1952, 1956 and 1960 and came within 43,000 votes of winning in 1964. The conservative Democratic establishment, backed by the pulp, citrus, mineral and commercial interests north of Dade County and Miami, clung to power in state elections...
Wilson managed to prevent a walkout, largely because most African Commonwealth members had nothing to gain-and too many economic benefits to lose-by leaving. He offered no new tactics against Rhodesia, clung instead to the hope that his economic boycott would eventually bring Smith down...
...assassin. Like Oswald, Speck was brought up largely by his mother (his father died when the boy was six). Born in Kirkwood, Ill., on Dec. 6, 1941, Speck, like Oswald, moved to Dallas as a small boy. Speck's mother, like Oswald's, remarried and clung grimly to the lower-middle-class fringe of poverty...
More than 13,000 rounds of artillery had pocked the ridge north of Kontum, and more than 100 fighter-bomber strikes had added their bite. But the three battalions of North Viet Nam's 24th Regiment still clung to the high ground as Operation Hawthorne-and the first major battle of 1966 for the critical Central Highlands-entered its second week...
...Organization had begun to bend--and crack. Thousands of conservatives who had clung to Harry Byrd's Democratic party found no home in the party of Godwin and Kellam. Last July, thy created the Virginia Conservative Party and attracted more than 70,000 votes for their candidate, William Story, an assistant school superintendent (since retired) and John Birch Society member. Last week they announced their own ticket for the Senate and urged their supporters to stay out of the Democratic primary...