Word: dakota
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democratic seats, these eleven seem safe: Florida, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Washington (Democrat Edmund Muskie unseated Republican Senator Fred Payne in Maine's September election). But Republican incumbents are breathing fairly easy only in four states: Delaware, Nebraska, North Dakota and Ohio. The tough Senate scraps...
...elected to the Senate, he will be a relatively useless and noisy ornament. He might provide companionship for fellow-maverick Bill Langer of North Dakota, but it will be hard to construe his victory as any resurgence of American reaction. As the candidates go into their final windups, responsible pulse-takers still predict a Watkins win. Such is the course of sanity, but sanity tends to be so dull...
...South Dakota...
...congressional seats safely belongs to Republican E. Y. Berry, 56. In the other, Republican Governor Joe Foss is running against Incumbent Democratic Representative George McGovern, first Democrat to hold a South Dakota congressional seat in 18 years. The South Dakota vote is strictly agricultural: McGovern started ahead because Foss had lost friends by raising taxes; then rains brought a farm boom and Foss moved up; then an August drought came to McGovern's help. Result: McGovern appears to have a handy lead, rapping Ezra Benson while Republican Foss tries to avoid taking a stand one way or another...
Armstrong's toughest task will be to needle those states that have lagged behind building schedules (see map). Several states are bogged down because they cannot raise their own 10% contribution to match the Government's 90% outlay. Among the laggards: West Virginia, Indiana, Wisconsin, Nebraska, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho...