Word: midwest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since Lynch shattered Zwolak's IC4A record last week and Hewlett missed his mark by a whisker-thin 0:00.2, it seems safe to assume that no midwest or Pacific coast runner is likely to outclass the Eastern pair on Monday...
...pockets of heathens, Lyndon Johnson in the last week of his campaign for election, went into those states where he thought the race with Barry Goldwater might be close. He roared through Florida, Georgia and South Carolina in the Deep South, through Indiana, Illinois and Kansas in the Midwest, through New Mexico, Utah and California in the West...
Only a massive defection of Republicans to Johnson-based generally on the fear that Goldwater was simply too unpredictable to be trusted with one of the highest positions of leadership in the free world-could account for John- son's sweep of New England and the Midwest...
...widespread fear that Goldwater might slash farm price supports and down- grade the Rural Electrification Administration helped lead to his sorry showing in the rural Midwest. Johnson almost wiped out the big G.O.P. margins traditional in downstate Illinois. He carried some rural areas of Wisconsin by an unprecedented 60%. He took North Dakota's Ward County- which had gone to Nixon in 1960-by a margin of 2 to 1. At the same time, Johnson also knocked down the normal Republican margins in Midwest suburban areas, even carried Missouri's suburban St. Louis County. In the Rocky Mountain...
...states as distant and disparate as Colorado, Texas and Connecticut, the Democratic congressional candidates swept clean. By latest count-subject to last-minute change-they had picked up 16 seats in the Midwest alone, including three in Ohio, two in Indiana and Wisconsin, one each in Illinois, Nebraska and North Dakota. The Democrats won at least six of Iowa's seven seats; many of the victors were young upstarts, notably John Culver, 32, former aide to Teddy Kennedy. The Democratic phalanx marched from Maine, where at least one out of two Democrats triumphed, to Washington, where the state...