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probably carry New York, Connecticut, Illinois and Ohio among the states now trending toward the Democrats. He might well win in all four tossup states. He might also make some other gains in the East, but would lose heavily in the South. The electoral-vote outlook would be: Rockefeller, 332; Humphrey, 171; Wallace, 17; and 18 in doubt. (For a region-by-region analysis, see below...
...Tennessee, Wallace may carry as much as 30% of the vote and lose the state for Nixon. But Texas, which emerged only recently as a two-party state, should be Nixon's-unless outgoing Governor John Connally is Humphrey's running mate. With Rockefeller the G.O.P. nominee, Wallace votes would probably turn Arkansas, South Carolina and Virginia from Republican to Democratic states; Florida and Texas would probably go Democratic. THE WEST: No Contest Of the region's 95 electoral votes, Humphrey is likely to win a scant seven -from the two newest states in the Union, Alaska...
...rose to lieutenant commander, Thornberry opened his own law practice, served on the Austin city council and as mayor pro tem. The nonpaying city post wound up costing him money, for Homer's law clients expected him to fix such things as $1 parking tickets, and rather than lose the clients, he paid the fines himself. It was as a city councilman in 1941 that Thornberry first showed his clear commitment to civil rights by fighting to keep two new subdivisions at the edge of Austin from becoming parts of the city unless they dropped clauses barring Jews from...
Whatever the effect on his political aspirations, Villegas' Japanese-baiting tactics can onlv hurt the city he leads. With the Manila offices of the Japanese firms closed down, the municipality stands to lose well over $350,000 a year in taxes. Eight of the harassed Japanese firms have already taken up new offices in the fast-growing suburb of Makati (pop. 150,000), and most of the rest are expected to follow suit...
...nights and weekends playing an intricate baseball game of his own invention. Eight imaginary teams of the Universal Baseball Association battle for the pennant; individual players spring to life as three dice and a collection of elaborately detailed charts decide their fate. They reach glory, enjoy fame, grow old, lose their skills, retire to sell insurance and finally die as the dice decree. Waugh records the statistics. He is God's scorekeeper, or perhaps God himself-the name J. Henry Waugh can be read as a play on the sacred Hebrew name for the Deity: Yahweh or Jahveh...