Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...County Y.M.C.A. There is the bowling gear of Daughter Bebe Bauer, 10, and the toys of Kelly Bauer, 7. Then there is Papa Bauer's proudest possession: the gunrack, with its eight shotguns, all oiled and ready for Hank's annual fall pheasant-hunting trip to South Dakota...
...Over. The son of a South Dakota druggist, Humphrey is an able, endlessly energetic, tirelessly talkative man with vaulting ambitions. As a student at the University of Minnesota, he was once told by a political science professor: "If God had given you as much brain as he has given you wind, you would be sure to be another Cicero." In fact, Hubert has brains to spare, a fact which helped to get him elected mayor of Minneapolis in 1945. Three years later, by then a candidate for the U.S. Senate, Humphrey achieved his first national notoriety. Attending the Democratic National...
...votes, a California sampling 64%, and the John P. Harris poll, run by a Kansas outfit, has him leading Barry 52 to 28 in that state. There are soft spots throughout the South and the Rocky Mountains, but beyond that, the polls leave little more than Nebraska, South Dakota and Ohio in doubt. And while most show Lyndon losing one out of every ten Democratic voters because of the civil rights "backlash," they also show him picking up three out of every ten Republicans because of what he loves to call the anti-Goldwater "frontlash...
...days is that no other state has a lower crime rate. It is based on the FBI's recently published Crime in the United States, which shows that in 1963 Mississippi had only 393.2 major crimes per 100,000 people, far below the 472.9 of similarly rural North Dakota, the second-best state, and the 2,990.1 of Nevada, the state with the nation's worst statistical crime rate...
Last week, in a high-speed delegate-wooing tour, Scranton traveled 7,000 miles, visited ten cities in ten states. From North Carolina to North Dakota, he kept up a blistering attack on Goldwater's candidacy. In a nationally televised speech from his home near Scranton, Pa., he laced into Barry: "If a man marching in a parade discovers that his cadence is different from every other marcher, who is he to say that the rest are out of step? But despite all this-despite the knowledge across the country that he lacks public support-despite his reckless pronouncements...