Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...states voted for a Senator from one party and a presidential candidate from another. Particularly in the South and West, Richard Nixon's coattails were not very long or strong. Generally, the Republicans tended to be better financed or better organized, and this helped them especially in Ohio and Colorado. In Kentucky, Republican Judge Cook outspent Democrat Katherine Peden by well over 2 to 1, but had a tough time defeating the only woman running for the U.S. Senate this year...
...Ribicoff won comfortably, while Birch Bayh overcame the Nixon trend in Indiana. Humphrey's New York victory did not faze Republican Jacob Javits, whose plurality exceeded 1,000,000. Among the easily elected conservative Republicans were Illinois' Everett Dirksen, New Hampshire's Norris Cotton, North Dakota's Milton Young, Colorado's Peter Dominick and Utah's Wallace Bennett. Vermont Republican George Aiken, who won the nomination of both major parties, had only one complaint: mostly because of the higher price of stamps, his campaign costs since 1962 have escalated...
...forbidding legal obstacles. Since then, five states have liberalized their punitive 19th century abortion laws. They now permit therapeutic abortions to be performed if the physical or mental health of the mother is in danger or if the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest. Four of these five states?Colorado, North Carolina, Georgia and Maryland?also authorize abortion if the child is likely to be born defective, as is commonly the case if the mother has had German measles (rubella) within the first three months of pregnancy. California did not sanction this ground because Governor Ronald Reagan threatened to veto...
...three decades in Washington, the community has been transformed from a decaying, unpaved cow town into a humming tourist mecca. As Congressman, Senator, Vice President and President, Johnson City's native son has showered largesse on his home hill country. First, in New Deal days, came the Lower Colorado River Authority, whose dams harnessed and tamed waters that had ravaged the countryside. Then he won for Johnson City the Pedernales Co-Op, which today provides power from the authority's steam plants to some 18,500 customers in seven counties. Lately there has been more: a handsome...
Before Hoffman entered the room, Parker told the committee that they should have resolved the dispute in Colorado, not the night before the race. According to Captain Curt Canning, Douglas Robie, president of the USOC, snarled back, "You're damn right that's when we should have taken care...