Word: districts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the Turnovers. Even in those few districts where seats did change party hands, the results seemed to depend far more on individual personalities and local conditions than on broad national issues?Viet Nam, law and order, inflation, the Negro revolution and the white backlash. In Ohio, for example, Republican Frances P. Bolton was defeated by Democratic Representative Charles A. Vanik. The deciding factor was Mrs. Bolton's age: she is 83, Vanik 55. In Missouri, Democrat James W. Symington, 41, handsome former chief of protocol for the U.S. State Department, took the suburban St. Louis County district that Republican...
...slim margin in 1966. This time he made things tougher for himself by calling Democratic Senator Abe Ribicoff a "creep" for his Democratic convention attack on Chicago police enforcement. Irwin lost to Republican State Representative Lowell P. Weicker Jr., 37, a lawyer who managed to unify the district's liberal and conservative Republicans...
There will be no lack of interesting new faces in the House. One will be that of Democrat Shirley Chisholm, 43, who won in a newly created Brooklyn district. Mrs. Chisholm will be the first Negro woman ever to become a member of the House of Representatives. She defeated another Negro?CORE Founder James Farmer?in a contest in which sex, of all things, was the big issue. Farmer aides conducted an underground campaign based on the premise that "women have been in the driver's seat" in black communities for too long. Negroes did not significantly increase their House...
...most outspoken crusader against crime and corruption. Three years ago, its chronic complaints about law en forcement in the Miami area were directed at Dade County State Attorney Richard Gerstein, the powerful and popular (if unsuccessful) prosecutor of Candy Mossier, ex-president of the Na tional District Attorneys' Association and much-decorated B-17 navigator. The Herald often wondered aloud why Ger stein kept turning up at race tracks, gam bling casinos in the Bahamas, and the Miami area's less savory bars...
...year sentence for burning a draft card, which the U.S. Supreme Court had upheld, was revoked by District Judge Andrew A. Caffrey of Boston yesterday because 21-year-old David P. O'Brien of Cambridge had had a "change of attitude." Caffrey put O'Brien, who served two months in federal prison, on probation for three years, provided he accepts civilian work in a hospital in lieu of military service...