Word: edwin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Humphrey carried the state. Democratic incumbent Sen. Abraham Ribicoff swept to re-election, beating Republican Edwin H. May, a former congressman. May centered his attack on Ribicoff's support of George McGovern for president and on the speech Ribicoff gave at the Democratic convention denouncing the "gestapo tactis" of the Chicago police. There was no change in the House delegation...
...unopposed in his race for re-election to the Senate, in this state that gave George Wallace over 50 per cent of its popular vote. All eight Democratic congressional candidates were easily reelected, five of them running unopposed. Among those returning to e Ninety-First congress are HUAC mogul Edwin E. Willis, arch-segregationist John R. Rarick, and F. Edward "Get rid of the First Amendment" Hebert...
...counted as leaders in nine more states. One is California, where liberal Democrat Alan Cranston is far ahead of conservative Republican Max Rafferty in a battle for the seat of Thomas Kuchel, a G.O.P. liberal. Another is Connecticut, though Abe Ribicoff is being pressed unexpectedly hard by Republican Edwin May. Republicans lead in another six Senate races, with comparatively easy victories forecast...
...Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, yesterday hailed the selection of Yasunari Kawabata for the Nobel Prize in literature as a long overdue recognition of Japanese literature...
...play has the aspect of a minor saga, but Edwin Sherin has directed it like a stampede: all decibels and no deftness. Either everyone shouts, or everyone postures in animated tableaux that look like posters left over from some social-protest movement of the '30s. Ostensibly pro-Negro, the play peculiarly caters to the stereotyped image of the Negro as forever singing, dancing, fighting, drinking and wenching. As for the question of racial injustice, the play provides a kind of false catharsis. It is the equivalent of appointing a congressional committee to investigate an air crash. It eases...