Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...captured eleven of the state's twelve largest cities and towns. He won 90% of the Negro vote, yet held his own in many of the white, working-class precincts that gave George Wallace a heavy vote in the 1964 Democratic primary. He turned on the electorate in low-income neighborhoods, where voting is not habitual, to produce solid crowds at the polls. And he succeeded in the face of several handicaps. Indiana is a basically conservative state. The Democratic organization, labor-union leadership and the state's two largest newspapers did their best to torpedo Kennedy...
Humphrey was expected to get about 30 per cent of the vote in this conservative state. The Humphrey-Johnson vote was low even among blue collar workers and blacks who had been expected to give the Administration a substantial vote...
Coach Ed Stowell expects to use his versatile star, Walter Johnson, in four events: the high and low hurdles and the long and high jumps. Johnson captured all these events against Yale. His 23'9" effort in the long jump broke the previous freshman record of 23'6 1/2" set in 1961 by track great Chris Ohiri...
With half the race gone, the Crimson was up on Penn by seven seats, Harvard at a slightly low 35, Penn at 36. All other crews were a length and a half back of the leader...
...Brennan slate's one-month, low-keyed campaign involved phone calling, neighborhood stumping, and electioneering at the poll booths. A printed disc with the names of the slate's members and the number of the appropriate polling-machine lever was its only campaign literature. The majority of voters at the polls seemed generally pleased to see college students and housewives at the polls. Their pleasant appearance put the crusty-looking opponents on the defensive. "Members of the incumbent slate there seemed like caricatures," a young housewife who had come to vote for McCarthy commented. "They all looked alike with those...