Word: kirke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lives in a comparatively modest, four-bedroom, ivy-covered house in Bel Air Estates. He owns two cars, a Chrysler for him, one for her-just like any other successful, harried commuter. When The Way West was on location in Oregon, his costars, Richard Widmark and Kirk Douglas, rented houses in Christmas Valley. Mitchum bunked with the wranglers...
...could offer Nixon, a man of the center, the sort of progressive appeal that would compensate for his weakness in the heavily urbanized industrial states. Such ideological equations are fast replacing geographical balance as the criteria for the second spot. Reagan, Texas Senator John Tower and Florida Governor Claude Kirk figured less prominently in the speculation; if Nixon decided that he needed a man from the right to offset George Wallace's third-party appeal, he was expected to turn to them. But the betting favored someone from the liberal camp...
While the futile floor fight was waged on national television, blacks fought with Miami police in Liberty City, a Miami slum about six miles away from Miami Beach. Police reported rampant looting. Republican Governor Claude Kirk called in the National Guard and appeared on television at 7 p.m. asking people in the area to spend a quiet night with their families. By midnight, four Blacks were dead and over 75 people were arrested...
...polls, there is cause for concern. The Republicans are particularly worried because of his strength in the South. Boosters of both Nelson Rockefeller and Ronald Reagan are using the Wallace threat in their attempts to pry loose Richard Nixon's convention delegates. Florida's Republican Governor Claude Kirk is distributing an arithmetical bumper sticker: 2P÷ GW= H³ Translation: Two parties divided by George Wallace equals Hubert Horatio Humphrey. The Democrats, also, fear that Wallace could hurt them in blue-collar areas outside Dixie...
...Chicago early in the week: "Governor, I'm a member of three minorities?I'm a woman, a Negro and a Republican. And each of us needs you to be President." But he has used old gambits, saying kind things about Ronald Reagan and Florida's Governor Claude Kirk, both conservatives, and holding open the possibility of a vice presidential nomination for one of them. Of course, Nixon has cast enough vice presidential lures to fill a small arena...