Word: indiana
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Alabama's Governor George Wallace for weeks has been bursting with tall talk. After his surprising performances in presidential primaries in Wisconsin, Indiana and Maryland, Segregationist Wallace announced that his name would be entered on the ballots of at least 16 states in the November election. He hoped that he might win enough electoral votes to force a sort of "coalition" government with one of the major parties - one in which he would be given power of review over Supreme Court appointments and assurance that never again would civil rights leaders "set foot in the White House." But last...
Polls and primaries added to the illusion that Goldwater could not win the nomination. Barry did very badly in New Hampshire and Oregon, won unimpressive and largely uncontested victories in such states as Illinois, Indiana, Nebraska and Texas. But what was unappreciated was the fact that in state convention after state convention, his backers were in complete control, and consistently naming Goldwater delegates to San Francisco...
After the Indiana populace heard Jamie sing that for the 22,356th time in the autumn of 1962, Birch Bayh went to Washington...
...near Woodruff and meander along State Highway 70 through country so studded with lakes that the road seems a bridge, and so rich in woods that they spill right up to the road's edge until the turnoff at Eagle River onto U.S. 45. U.S. 460 in Indiana meanders over hills only a spit away from Kentucky to the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, which includes the site of the log cabin where the young Lincoln studied by candlelight, and the grave of his mother, Nancy Hanks. Farther along is the New Harmony settlement, a 19th century Utopian experiment that...
Although the pilot and Teddy's aide, Edward Moss, were killed in the crash, the Kennedy luck stretched far enough to cover his other traveling companions, Indiana Senator and Mrs. Birch Bayh. Strapped down by their seat belts, the Bayhs suffered torn back muscles, but they were saved from serious or fatal injuries. What puzzled the doctors, though, was how the Senator had been able to help Kennedy get away from the wreck. Once he got to the hospital and had time to realize how badly he had been banged up, Bayh was in too much pain to move...