Word: hoosier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hoosier Halfback...
...Saved!" shouted Joan Kennedy at the press conference. "I have a feeling I came at the right time," said Indiana's Democratic Senator Birch Bayh, who turned up at just the proper moment to rescue her from a tricky question about the Pans peace talks. Joan was in Hoosier land campaigning for Bayh's reelection, reminding her audiences that it was he who had risked his life to pull her husband Teddy out of the wreckage in that near-fatal light-plane crash near Springfield, Mass., tour years ago. At one rally she let her listeners...
...state,"* said Nixon, "I am glad to be back home in Indiana." The crowd was nearly evangelical in its response, one woman exclaiming over and over again: "Amen, amen, Nixon! He can't be beat." Along with the usual campaign placards, a new sticker appeared on Hoosier cars: "Feel Safer with Nixon." The candidate must also have felt safe: this was the state he carried by nearly 225,000 votes in the 1960 election...
McCarthy will require all of his urbane powers of persuasion. Of late, the Minnesotan's campaign forays have seemed forced marches. In both Indiana and Nebraska, his volunteer student armies have dwindled. McCarthy has sometimes appeared supercilious, as last week in Indiana, when he declared the Hoosier primary to be "critical" to the outcome of the Democratic race. Later, in an unwonted exercise of heads-I-win-tails-you-lose casuistry, he explained testily that he meant it would be crucial only if he won against Kennedy and Hoosier Favorite Son Roger Branigin. Otherwise, he averred, Indiana would...
Continuing his family's perfect winning streak, Senator Robert F. Kennedy scored an inconclusive victory over his two rivals in the Indiana primary--Senator Eugene J. McCarthy and Hoosier Governor Roger D. Branigin, the favorite son candidate...