Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sports-minded, Republican Wilmer ("Vinegar Bend") Mizell, 38, onetime pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Pirates, won in North Carolina over Democrat Smith Bagley. Also certain to be heard from in the new House is Long Island's ultraliberal Democrat Allard K. Lowenstein, 39, a leader in the effort to land the Democratic presidential nomination for McCarthy...
...Republican success was not bloodless: two nationally prominent G.O.P. incumbents met defeat at the hands of Democratic unknowns. Rhode Island's John Chafee, a Rockefeller activist seeking his fourth term, and Montana's Tim Babcock, after a third term, were dropped by the only unifying issue of the gubernatorial contest?taxes. Chafee had endorsed a state income-tax increase from a maximum of 5% to 8% in order to bring in $35 million in much-needed revenues. His Democratic rival, Superior Court Justice Frank Licht, 52, countered with a proposed investment tax, and that turned the trick. Babcock opted...
...Paul Hemphill of The Atlanta Journal. Staff Reporters and Cheerleaders: Henry Bradsher of the Moscow Bureau of the Associated Press; Paul Houston of The Los Angeles Times; Robert Levey of The Boston Globe; Richard Long-worth of the Moscow Bureau of United Press International; Michael McGrady of Newsday, Long Island; Joseph Strickland of The Detroit News; John Zakarian of the Lindsay-Schaub Newspapers, Decatur, Illinois; Miss Gisela Bolte of the Time-Life Bureau in Bonn; O-Kie Kwon of Dong-A Ilbo, Seoul; Yoshihiko Muramatsu of the Tokyo Bureau of Hokkaido Shimbun; Harald Pakendorf of Die Vaterland, Johannesburg; and Pedronio...
Early on the morning of Election Day, Allard K. Lowenstein was trying to get Long Island commuters to stop and shake his hand. In between trains, he quietly picked some of his campaign literature out of the garbage pail. A heavy-set man wearing a Nixon button glared at one of the girls helping Lowenstein. "I'd never vote for him," he said. "I'm a policeman...
...once thought I knew a little something about Rhode Island. I grew up in the shadows of Brown Stadium, after all. But then Brown beat Colgate which had beaten Princeton and then the next week, the Bruins lost to Princeton. Not bad enough? Well, Frank. Licht surprised everyone by defeating incumbent governor John Chafee. So Cornell will win, 13-7, because Licht went to Brown...