Word: elected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Working under National Affairs Editor Louis Banks, a staff of 35 writers and researchers were set to move in whatever direction the night's fast-breaking news took them. Naturally, the President-elect would be on the cover; but that meant two writers assigned and primed to write cover stories-and inevitably one had no story to write. Other facets of the whole election story-the losers, the Senate, the House, the Governors-were in the hands of writers who spent long hours in advance anticipating the outcome, getting ready to measure the significance of the results...
...song went, were here again. And they got here again in a way that F.D.R. could well have appreciated: a Democratic candidate, partly by force of personality, partly by piecing back together the power blocs that had been shattered by Republican Dwight Eisenhower, was the U.S.'s President-elect...
...drive began to creep forward again. With some 90% of the votes counted, Kennedy led Nixon by just 770,000, but he led where it counted. Illinois was in doubt, but Kennedy seemed safely ahead in key California. Finally, even the most cautious proclaimed John Fitzgerald Kennedy the President-elect...
...major problem facing the President-elect, Pell stated, is the eventual admission of Red China to the United Nations or the fall...
Proposals for a "Peace Corps" of U.S. youth got a boost last weekend at a Princeton conference of students, educators, foundation and government officials. Establishing a steering committee, the conference urged President-elect Kennedy to set before Congress legislation concerning a youth service program, and called for research, in cooperation with foreign leaders, on those needs of newly developing countries which a U.S. youth corps could help meet...