Word: connecticut
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...Smith Myth." The paper was prepared under the supervision of Connecticut's Democratic State Chairman John Bailey, himself a Catholic, who strongly favors a national ticket of Protestant* Adlai Stevenson and Kennedy. It concedes only that "Democratic margins in several [Southern] states might be diminished" if a Catholic were nominated for Vice President. It quickly adds: "It is apparent that a Democratic Catholic vice-presidential nominee, although admittedly prejudices would be stirred, would lose no electoral votes for the ticket simply because a handful of Southerners or Republicans would not support...
...about one out of every four voters who turn out-because of its concentration in the key states and cities of the North." The paper lists 14 states with 261 electoral votes: New York (with population estimated at 32% Catholic), Pennsylvania (29%), Illinois (30%), New Jersey (39%), Massachusetts (50%), Connecticut (49%), Rhode Island (60%), California (22%), Michigan (24%), Minnesota (24%), Ohio (20%), Wisconsin (32%), Maryland (21%), and Montana...
...Paint. The final discovery was made more than a year ago, and since then she has closely guarded the secret. But such a bizarre story could not keep for long. Last week friends told her they had heard snatches of the story-at a dinner in Virginia, at a Connecticut party, at a Texas air base. The details were coming...
...Connecticut (20): Following Governor Abraham Ribicoff and voting under the unit rule, 20 for Stevenson...
...much as any man led the way in eliminating narrow specialties at Yale and in making sure that all Yalemen get in common the broad "background of all human knowledge." A gentle-mannered man who signs his amateur paintings "Edmund Ware" and is an authority on old Connecticut tombstones, Scientist Sinnott has spent a lifetime trying to heal the split between science and faith. "The two roads to truth . . . the way of science, confident in reason, and the way of faith, depending on the insights of the spirit, do not follow the same course." Yet man should not "regret these...