Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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George Wallace, the dreaded unknown factor, proved to be primarily a sectional candidate after all. His major impact was confined to the Deep South, where, as expected, he and his running mate, Curtis LeMay, carried Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas and Georgia. Nowhere in the industrial Northern states did he wrench away a massive blue-collar vote. In Boston's working-class districts, for example, Humphrey tallied 74% of the vote to Wallace's 24%. In poorer white sections of Detroit, pre-election Wallace partisans flocked back to the Democratic Party, joining Negroes, suburban whites and elderly voters...
...points over Hubert Humphrey in the mid-August Gallup poll, Nixon had declined to a scant two-point edge in both the Gallup and Harris surveys on the last week-end of the race. On Election Eve, Harris weighed in with a final poll that took into account the impact of the Viet Nam bombing pause proclaimed by Lyndon Johnson last week. In it-astonishingly-Humphrey led by three points...
...radicalism. Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, managing editor of FORTUNE, general manager of Time Inc. and later publisher of TIME, also quarreled with Luce politically, but more often about publishing matters. In 1938 Hitler was chosen to be TIME'S Man of the Year (the criterion, as always, was news impact not moral worth). Since no adequate color photograph was available, TIME had to settle for a rather innocuous picture of Hitler in khaki. Brooding over this, Ingersoll replaced it at the last minute with a lithograph of Hitler playing a devil's organ from which hung his naked victims...
While violence cannot be condoned, the need for change on our universities must be recognized. I have suggested on several occasions during the campaign that students must be permitted to participate in the affairs of their university and in the important decisions which have an impact on them. As I stated on June...
...question that with proper legislative authority and funding, we can enhance the freedom of choice of American women to plan the size of their families and the spacing of their children. I am committed to this goal and I think it is a feasible one that will have important impact on child health and reduction of infant mortality. It must however, be a part of the comprehensive approach to the health problems rather than an isolated service...