Word: florida
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other words, the 1968 presidential campaign is early, wide open and worth fighting. Thanks to last November's comeback, the G.O.P. controls half of the nation's statehouses, representing 293 out of the 535 electoral votes and 57.5% of the population. Recent Re publican gains in Florida's legislature and the narrow loss of a Rhode Island congressional seat that had been Democratic for 33 of the past 35 years point to continuing strength. "The momentum," says House Minority Leader Jerry Ford, "is still running...
While the Democrats retained control of both houses, they lost the two-thirds margins needed to override a gubernatorial veto. The previous senate line-up favored the Democrats 37-11; the new ratio will be 28-20. In the Florida house, which was expanded by two seats, the balance shifted from...
...dismiss Kirk as merely a swinger who got lucky may be underestimating the Governor. He has shown himself to be an effective political organizer. Immediately after his victory last November, he rudely shook Florida's somnolent Republican Party into wide-eyed activity. He installed an effective state chairman, began a successful fund-raising campaign, and provided his largely inexperienced slate of legislative candidates with local organizational support and professional opinion-sampling services. The polls reported that the voters were unhappy about crime, taxes and Lyndon Johnson; Republican candidates denounced all three in energetic unison. The Democrats, by contrast, were...
However, federal district courts will now be under a mandate to apply the same ruling to all school cases throughout the Fifth Circuit's territory: Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, Mississippi and Georgia...
...funny thing happened to Pete Cooper last week. A golf pro from Florida, Cooper played 72 holes at the Pensacola Country Club and scored 70, 71, 70 and 75 for a two-under-par total of 286. Yet, for those fine rounds, all poor Pete earned was the dubious distinction of finishing 82nd and last in the P.G.A. Pensacola Open. He was 24 strokes behind Gay Brewer, who shot 66, 64, 61 and 71 for an improbable...