Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ronald Norwood Davies, 55, U.S. District Court for North Dakota. One of the few Northerners to play a key role in any local segregation issue, sober-minded, Minnesota-born Ronald Davies was virtually unknown until Aug. 26, 1957, when he reported to preside in Little Rock for a session of the Eastern District Court of Arkansas. There, in Civil Case 3113, without precedent to guide him, Davies issued the injunction forbidding Governor Orval Faubus and his National Guard officers from interfering with the integration of Little Rock's Central High School. President Eisenhower had to send in federal troops...
District Vote. South Dakota's Senator Karl Mundt, a Republican who has long dreamed of uniting Northern and Southern conservatives in a single political party, leads a campaign to bring the presidential election somewhat closer to a proportional vote than it is now. He would divide each state into electoral districts, each nearly equal in population, have the voters in each district choose one elector, plus two "at large'' electors to be selected statewide. Under such a system, says Mundt, "the present inordinate power of organized pressure groups in the big-city states would be reduced...
...middle-aged Texas oilman recently, it was the long, goose-pimpled wait for a rendezvous with a $50 floozy in a plum-colored parlor; for a life-insurance salesman from New Jersey, it was a harmless evening in an elegant and naughty North-Side Key Club; for a mackinawed Dakota farmer back in 1906, it was a dinner at the old Saratoga Hotel, where after ordering a fancy city dish called oysters on the half shell, he devoured the oysters and then crunched through the shells. But though Chicago, in its own sullen and grimy way, has afforded millions...
Agriculture: Minnesota's defeated Governor Orville Freeman; South Dakota's ex-Congressman George McGovern; Wisconsin's Governor Gaylord Nelson...
Slow March. Although some old Roosevelt-era party loyalties were revived, U.S. voters put on an impressive display of ticket splitting. Massachusetts, Minnesota and New Mexico went for Kennedy but elected Republican Governors. Indiana, Nebraska and North Dakota went for Nix on but elected Democratic Governors...