Word: colorado
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According to the Rocky Mountain Times (Denver), Humphrey captured 40 per cent of the precincts--to McCarthy's 30 per cent and Kennedy's 20 per cent. Colorado's 35 votes at the Democratic National Convention are still very much in question...
...Colorado, where several thousand Democratic precinct caucuses met on Monday evening, Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey appears to have taken a substantial number of them, but not a majority...
McCarthy showed strength in Boulder (home of the University of Colorado) and in the middle-class suburbs of Denver. Humphrey got most of his support from mining and industrial areas like Pueblo and Colorado Springs...
...Minnesota and lowa, McCarthy forces turned out many political novices for neighborhood caucus votes, and a well-organized McCarthy effort in Colorado produced unprecedented turn-outs in many areas. The energy in the McCarthy camp put pressure on the Humphrey forces to bring out the vote. Together they came up with the highest voting figures for precinct caucuses in Colorado history...
There is no abortion law in Massachusetts. Public hearings on proposed abortion laws are currently being held. Discussion centers on whether abortion will be permitted only to have the mother's life or also when her health is endangered. Discussion of such bills is painful to watch. In Colorado, the medical profession was concerned that a liberalization would place the burden of life and death decisions in the hands of doctors, but the liberalization passed. On a lower plane, in Massachusetts, "the value of life" argument is coupled with the vindictive plea that liberalized abortion will encourage promiscuity...