Word: nebraska
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once Stassen was the boy wonder-a county attorney at 23, Governor of Minnesota at 31, Republican Convention keynoter (in 1940) at 33, as well as floor manager for Wendell Willkie. His own cause peaked in 1948 when he scored impressive victories in the Wisconsin and Nebraska presidential primaries, only to be overwhelmed in Oregon by New York's Tom Dewey. Since then, his course has been downhill. Now 61, he wears an unconvincing toupee and a sadly forced smile. His current slogan is STASSEN '68-WHY NOT? A better question...
...Nebraska (30): Humphrey should get 16 votes and McCarthy 6; the rest are uncommitted...
Rarely had so many politicians altered their positions so radically and so swiftly. As mail cascaded into their Capitol Hill offices, Senators and Representatives who had long opposed even the mildest gun-control legislation nimbly switched sides. "Times change," said Nebraska's Republican Senator Roman Hruska, once Capitol Hill's strongest opponent of controls, "and sometimes they change rapidly...
...performers'. But for the most part, Negroes leave it up to whites to defend the idea of "blue-eyed soul," whether by the criterion of talent, experience or temperament. Janis Joplin argues it this way: "There's no patent on it. It's just feeling things. A housewife in Nebraska has soul, but she represses it, makes it conform to a lot of rules like marriage, or sugarcoats...