Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...throw ridicule on me and my people. In the article [about Anthropologist Paul Barker's dealings with Haitians while digging for evidence of the civilization Columbus described-Oct. 10, you and Professor Paul Barker depicted my people as the worst uncivilized savages. And that [the god] Dambala removes strangers, like Barker, posthaste from the premises. This is not true. Instead, Professor Barker's job in Haiti was not especially tough...
...Ohio River towns bulge with poor West Virginians and Kentuckians, and the Democrats are hotly courting them. Scripps-Howard polls gave Nixon only 46% of the straws in Cincinnati-which went 62½% for Ike in 1956. The G.O.P. counts on carrying the farm counties, along with Dayton and Columbus. The rising Democratic tide in Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) and other major industrial areas (in Youngstown, 30,000 of the 55,000 steelworkers are unemployed) should easily tip the balance. KENNEDY...
...York, Pa. and Harrisburg, Huntingdon and Pittsburgh; in Marietta, Ohio and Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus and Toledo; in Jackson, Mich., and Battle Creek; in Danville, Ill., Mattoon and Carbondale-in the more than 40 hamlets and cities in the path of his one-week siege, Nixon struck out at Kennedy with ever sharper accusations of naivete and fear-spreading ("It's time to hot things up a bit, don't you think?" he asked one audience). Nearly everywhere churning, cheering crowds smashed to the depots to roar their encouragement as he countered the Kennedy campaign theme ("All of this...
...several thousand who waited patiently outside in the rain for the Columbus Circle rally got the real treat of the evening. Here Kennedy and Johnson, who had been restrained inside by the time limit and prepared texts, let themselves...
...elections, Democrats outnumbered Republicans, 737,623 659,268. The Democratic power is still centered in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County. Where Kennedy men predict a 250,000 margin, but DiSalle's home town of Toledo is also expected to be a strong point. Even in the predominantly Republican areas around Columbus and Cincinnati, the considerable Catholic population give the Democrats a respectable second place...