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...First adopted in the U.S. by the city of Los Angeles in 1903, the recall has been used to topple two mayors there and to unseat city officers elsewhere. Only North Dakota has ever ousted a Governor-Lynn Joseph Frazier, in 1921, because of a bank scandal. The same electorate sent him to the U.S. Senate the very next year...
Scheduling the Expedition's supply runs has also proven difficult. An old R-4D Dakota, operating out of Barrow, flew the first three airdrops and actually made two landings out on the ice, but beyond a certain point in the sled journey, the R-4D couldn't make the flight without a refueling stop at T-3, pretty much an impossibility now that the runway has melted...
...Humphrey or Eugene McCarthy, the candidate will be a Midwesterner, and the native son figures to win 83 electoral votes to 45 for Nixon and 21 undecided. For Humphrey: Illinois (26), Michigan (21), Minnesota (10) and Ohio (26). For Nixon: Indiana (13), Kansas (7), Missouri (12), Nebraska (5), North Dakota (4) and South Dakota (4). Up in the air: Iowa (9), which is breaking out of its former conservative mold; and Wisconsin (12), which would be Nixon country if Neighbor Humphrey were not so popular there...
...Michigan, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, Maine, Minnesota, North Dakota, Alaska, Hawaii, Oregon, Iowa, West Virginia, New York, Vermont...
...South Dakota...