Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nixon took Indiana as a Wallace challenge never developed. Incumbent Sen. Birch Bayh, a Democrat, had trouble overcoming William Ruckelshaus. Ruckelshaus moved out early but faded to lose by four per cent...
Richard Ogilvie, as expected, took the governorship from incumbent Democrat Sam Shapiro...
...Senatorial race, Judge Marlow Cook, a Republican, defeated the Democrat, Katherine Peden, to keep possession of Thruston Morton's seat...
Despite Hubert Humphrey's victory, Democratic Senate candidate Paul O'Dwyer was swamped by veteran Sen. Jacob K. Javits. O'Dwyer, who was nominated as a result of the large McCarthy vote in the primary, did not have the support of the regular Democratic machine and was never given much of a chance against the popular Javits. The New York House delegation remained largely the same but several races provided interest. In New York City Mrs. Shirley Chisholm, a Democrat, became the first Negro woman ever elected to Congress when she defeated James Farmer, former head of Core. Allard...
...angry men were responsible for the exhibit: Chicago Art Dealer Richard Feigen, a Democrat who found himself shoved into the aisle during the convention by Daley's sanitation workers, and Sculptor Claes Oldenburg, who was visiting the city at the time and, as he recounts it, got "tossed to the ground by six swearing troopers who kicked me and choked me and called me a Communist." In such a context, Oldenburg told Feigen, "a gentle one-man show about pleasure" that he had originally promised the gallery for November seemed "a bit obscene." Still, he was willing to help...