Word: midwest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nixon picked up expected Midwest Farm votes with a substantial victory, and GOP Senatorial candidate Jack Miller, riding his coat talls, won by 20,000 ballots over Gov. Hershel Loveless...
Solid for Nixon: The Vice President can bank on the traditional G.O.P. strongholds in New England (Maine, Vermont) and in the Midwest grain belt (Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota). Votes: NIXON...
Other Big Eight coaches roam farther afield for material. Every winter Missouri's Coach Dan Devine kisses goodbye his wife, six daughters and a son and spends 90% of his time barnstorming around the Midwest. Iowa State has lured no fewer than 23 players out of the fertile football towns of Ohio, traditionally the Big Ten's nursery. In its recruiting competition with the Big Eight, the Big Ten operates under one severe handicap: its prospects must go through the indignity of proving financial need before they can get a full scholarship...
...cold war battle. Instead, the Nixon forces were regrouping for a dogged stateby-state battle for votes, prepared to stick to Nixon's experience theme for all it was worth but equally ready (along with the Democrats) to work such local issues as farm support in the Midwest. oil depletion in Texas, aid for depressed areas in states of rising unemployment...
...Internal Revenue Service, the State Department blandly insisted that it is an organization giving scholarships to worthy students for foreign travel, referred further queries to the foundation's Philadelphia Lawyer Alex Adelman. Adelman in turn explained that he was only the agent for a group of unnamable "Midwest" businessmen "who don't want any publicity...