Word: heartlands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Politician." In the Midwest, long a G.O.P. heartland, the people in the small towns and on the farms largely back Barry. There is also support surfacing in the cities. Racial feelings run deep and pro-Goldwater sentiment high in Cleveland, St. Louis, Gary, Chicago and Detroit, where much of the giant Democratic urban machinery has become rusty and undependable since 1960. Cook County Sheriff Richard Ogilvie, an able politician and one Republican who survived the 1962 election against Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley's legions, thinks the Daley juggernaut has lost a lot of steam, and predicts flatly...
...meeting reflected the divergent interests and cultures represented in the network of free nations that has evolved from the British Empire: only five were white, and the other 13 represented every shade of skin from ivory-yellow through burnt umber to the blue-black of Africa's heartland...
...Moines, Scranton roused a crowd of 3,000 to cheers as he declared: "Tonight the heartland of America waits for new answers. Tonight the heartland of America demands vigorous leadership, rugged faith, and a renewal of the march forward. I intend to offer those answers-I intend to provide that leadership. If you will march with me, the American journey can begin again. Where issues are complex, I will not try to fool you into believing that they are simple. Where we are in trouble-and we are in trouble tonight in many parts of this shrinking world-I will...
...importance and respect his position brings, Fred Kappel, at 62, remains essentially a small-town boy who retains the earthy and often unsophisticated ways of the heartland. He runs the most modern of corporations from an old-fashioned office in a lower Manhattan building whose Doric columns and tiled floors are defiantly unmodern. In this Parthenon of the William Howard Taft era, Kappel still converses in the slangy, twangy argot of his native Albert Lea, Minn., can still cuss on occasion like the pole-hole digger he once was. One significant term that often salts his conversation is "long-nosed...
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov was born 94 years ago in a comfortable frame house in the small, sleepy city of Simbirsk, deep in the Russian heartland. His mother, a Lutheran, was a Volga German; his father Ilya, of Russian-Mongolian ancestry, was a teacher who rose to the post of director of elementary schools for his province and received a minor patent of nobility from the Czar. The Ulyanovs were seemingly untouched by the vast, ancient and epically inefficient tyranny that ruled Russia, or by the equally inefficient stirring against it. Vladimir and his older brother Alexander had an idyllic childhood...