Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What messed things up was an amendment offered by Pennsylvania Democrat Francis E. ("Tad") Walter. It would have scrapped a redistricting plan already painfully worked out in Pennsylvania, forcing the state to start again from scratch-or run all its Congressmen at large. After hot dispute, the amendment was adopted...
...West, where Nixon won 10 of 13 states in 1960, the party is still gen erally healthy, despite spotty problems: > In Idaho, a strong Republican organization under Governor Robert Smylie is working, not only to hold the governorship, but to knock Democrat Frank Church out of the Senate. Church has been unable to bring Idaho any new starts on reclamation projects in the past two years. (The state has had at least one start every year since 1906.) > Alaska's Democratic Governor William Egan is vulnerable, since he has been caught in a sectional crossfire over moving the state...
...Green insisted that his polls showed that Dilworth could not win and would not even carry Philadelphia, where Dilworth moved belatedly last year to clean up a scandal in the city government. Dilworth imported Pollster Lou Harris, Jack Kennedy's trend spotter. Harris found Dilworth the strongest possible Democrat in the field, and told the President so. Despite the fact that Green had helped Kennedy win both the Democratic nomination and Pennsylvania's 32 electoral votes in 1960. Green got the word from the White House to get out of Dilworth's way. Last week in Harrisburg...
...Woodside. The Old Guard reluctantly retired Woodside, brought out U.S. Representative James E. Van Zandt, 63, for Governor. At week's end they finally abandoned him and went along with the Scranton candidacy; Van Zandt ended up as the G.O.P. Senate nominee to oppose the popular incumbent, Democrat Joseph S. Clark. Said Bill Scranton, who calls himself a progressive Republican: "I would have thought there would have been considerable scars left, but there are practically none...
...Thomas P. O'Neill, a Democrat, whom the eleventh district has reelected four times, told the CRIMSON that selling the land to anyone besides Harvard would "spoil the continuity of the University area...