Word: florida
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ohio prefer Rockefeller as a man who could cut sharply into the Democratic hold on the cities. THE SOUTH: Nixon, Naturally With 145 electoral votes at stake, Nixon should take 82, Humphrey 46, Wallace 17 (Alabama's 10 and Mississippi's 7). For Nixon: Arkansas (6), Florida (14), Kentucky (9), Oklahoma (8), South Carolina (8), Texas (25) and Virginia (12). For Humphrey: Georgia (12), Louisiana (10), North Carolina (13-) and Tennessee (11)-But for a growing Negro vote, a deep-rooted Democratic tradition and the fact that most Wallace votes will be skin off Republican hides, Nixon might...
...Nixon. But Texas, which emerged only recently as a two-party state, should be Nixon's-unless outgoing Governor John Connally is Humphrey's running mate. With Rockefeller the G.O.P. nominee, Wallace votes would probably turn Arkansas, South Carolina and Virginia from Republican to Democratic states; Florida and Texas would probably go Democratic. THE WEST: No Contest Of the region's 95 electoral votes, Humphrey is likely to win a scant seven -from the two newest states in the Union, Alaska (3) and Hawaii (4)- while Nixon walks off with the remaining 88 votes from eleven states...
...just this connection between crime and death sentences that the testimony sought to discredit. After Delaware, for example, reinstated capital punishment in 1961, there was an increase rather than a decrease in the number of murders. The five states with the highest murder rates-Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Florida and Mississippi -also were among the leaders in executions between...
Teachers must organize, agitate and, when all else fails, strike, argues Libby Koontz, because "communities recognize power and we must recognize the facts of life." Last year the N.E.A. staged strikes in Florida, Michigan and Albuquerque. She insists that the demand for higher pay does not mean that a teacher is more concerned about himself than his students. "We can be concerned about our kids-and well-paid at the same time. And we're not going to get able young people into teaching unless we improve conditions. All we're saying is that if the schools belong...
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