Word: nebraska
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wallace is cutting into the normally Democratic blue-collar wards. But a substantial number of those votes might have gone to Nixon this year because of the "law-and-order" issue, and now may be denied him. In any case, despite signs of rising Wallace strength in Missouri, Indiana, Nebraska, Kentucky, Montana and Wyoming, there is only a slim chance that he will throw a deadlocked election to the House of Representatives. Still, with seven weeks to go, there is enough time for events in Paris, Viet Nam or the ghettos?or a serious campaign gaffe?to scramble...
...capital after another, government discussions turned rapidly from détente to defense. There were some predictable recriminations charging that the free world had been overly optimistic about Soviet aims. Typical of that mood was Nebraska Republican Roman L. Hruska, who said in a Senate speech, "Our belief in the theory of Soviet mellowing has debilitated our entire military strategy." Many Western military leaders were openly grateful that the Soviets had shaken the politicians out of complacency before NATO was further enfeebled. As retired General Alfred M. Gruenther, a former NATO commander, put it: "The Soviet invasion was a jolt...
...Nebraska-born Baldrige worked his way up from pouring iron to the presi dency of Connecticut's Eastern Co. be fore being tapped for the Scovill...
Everything By Ear. Williams was born Louis Weertz, the son of a Lutheran minister from the corn country of Nebraska and Iowa. At eight, he had learned to play 13 instruments by ear, but he did not get serious about the piano until one of his teachers told him he would never be anything but a music teacher. "That's when I started practicing eight, ten hours a day," he says. "I had a tremendous desire to be famous." He needed it. At Iowa's Drake University, where he got a master's degree in music, professors...
...Democrats nominate Humphrey or Eugene McCarthy, the candidate will be a Midwesterner, and the native son figures to win 83 electoral votes to 45 for Nixon and 21 undecided. For Humphrey: Illinois (26), Michigan (21), Minnesota (10) and Ohio (26). For Nixon: Indiana (13), Kansas (7), Missouri (12), Nebraska (5), North Dakota (4) and South Dakota (4). Up in the air: Iowa (9), which is breaking out of its former conservative mold; and Wisconsin (12), which would be Nixon country if Neighbor Humphrey were not so popular there...