Word: districts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years later Brooke was reelected when his Democratic opponent, James Hennigan, then a state legislator unknown outside his own district, provided a lackluster campaign, because of a lack of money...
Judge Smith's opponent is Fredericksburg Attorney George C. Rawlings Jr., 44, a member of the legislature and a liberal by Virginia standards. Rawlings, who supports the Johnson Administration on most issues, has been racing tirelessly around the district since April. Rawlings attacks Smith as "Public Enemy No. 1 of the working man," a Representative "who has opposed more progressive legislation than any other Democrat or Republican in the entire history of Congress...
...victim of changes at home. The civil rights movement and the end of the poll tax are adding Negroes to the voting rolls, while the old Harry Byrd machine, of which Smith is a prize cog, faces attack from all sides. Smith's district has been reapportioned to his disadvantage since the last election, now includes a large segment of liberally inclined Fairfax County, a suburb of Washington. Nonetheless, Smith's cause, like his equanimity, is far from lost. Much of the district is still rural and conservative, and there is considerable affection for the Bible-quoting, foxy...
...been rampaging through Phu Yen province felt another kind of pressure. Flushed with victory over a lightly armed South Vietnamese company of C.l.D.G. (Civilian Irregular Defense Group), more than a regiment of Red troops positioned itself around a bloodied battalion of U.S. 101st Airborne troopers probing the district of Tuy Hoa as part of Operation Nathan Hale. Communist Company Commander 1st Lieut. Lu Due Thung, 35, was sent out after dusk to "find and fix the weak American force," as he later told his captors, then report back so that the Reds could launch a massive attack on the 101st...
...seen the Tun (an aristocratic Malaysian title, though of lower rank than Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia's Prime Minister) taking a plane to Sydney under the assumed name "Hawk." Lim Yew Hock turned out to have been a habitue of Sydney's tenderloin King's Cross district, particularly its Paradise Club, which featured Sandra Nelson, 19, the most expansive (43-24-36) stripper in town. Where was Sandra? Also missing; and try as they might, the police couldn't locate her for questioning...