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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Humphrey's campaign calls for his Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party workers to storm across the state line, cover "every country crossroads." But Humphrey will concentrate his personal stemwinding in the cities, mainly Milwaukee. Reason: to win the statewide majority and thus the ten dele-gate-votes-at-large, he must cut deep into those expected Kennedy majorities (up to 25,000 in the "southside" Fourth District). None too hopeful on this score, Humphrey forces are trying instead to get the party's rules changed, cut the delegates-at-large vote to five, boost the districts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: PIVOTAL PRIMARY | 2/1/1960 | See Source »

Plunging In. In Hartford, Conn., notified that convicts were escaping from the county jail, police discovered that Plumbers Thomas Curtin and Anthony Tomkiel, no prisoners, took a short cut over the wall instead of using the gate after finishing a job inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 25, 1960 | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

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