Word: columne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coattails. President Eisenhower's lastditch campaigning was credited with helping pull Ohio into the G.O.P. column, and he nearly turned the trick in New Jersey. Kennedy grabbed a few coattails. running behind Senator Paul Douglas and Gubernatorial Candidate Otto Kerner in Illinois, and in many other states trailed local Democratic front runners...
Second Thoughts. Influenced less by the actual votes counted than by the projections of the TV computers, headline writers across the country splashed KENNEDY WINS across early front pages. At 2:04 a.m., the usually cautious New York Times declared Kennedy "elected" in an eight-column banner over the lead story by Washington Bureau Chief James ("Scotty") Reston, called to New York for the occasion. The edition was hardly on the street, however, when the Times high command, including President Orvil E. Dryfoos, took a worried look at the eroding Kennedy margin, gathered in emergency conference and hurriedly decided...
...South, Nixon showed strength along the border, holding slight leads in Tennessee and Kentucky. The Democrats claimed North Carolina and South Carolina-two states that Nixon had been counting in his column-and signs were mounting that Southern Negroes, who had been strong for Ike, were swinging back to the Democrats (in Durham, N.C., one bellwether Negro precinct that went 66% for Ike in 1956 went 66% for Kennedy...
...tussle with himself and the H. T. syndicate. The syndicate feared a loss of readers. Crosby feared a loss of sanity if he kept on working television. "I can't look at that box any more or I'll go crazy," he confessed. And in his farewell column he wrote: "It gets harder and harder to write a coherent sentence...
...early returns on Crosby's pronouncement were something less than a vote of confidence. About half the 82 newspapers that carry his TV comments are expected to drop his new column. The reaction did not dismay Crosby, who expects that when the public has learned to appreciate his moral marksmanship, "twice as many papers will carry my column as we have...