Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Farther west, Nixon had selected five incumbent Democratic Senators as likely targets for unseating: North Dakota's Quentin Burdick, Wyoming's Gale McGee, Utah's Frank Moss, New Mexico's Joseph Montoya and Nevada's Howard Cannon. Conservatives were recruited to run well-financed campaigns against the ostensibly vulnerable quintet. Campaigners from Washington hustled through. Agnew anointed Moss "the Western regional chairman of the Radic-Lib Eastern Establishment." Moss was re-elected easily, and the four other Democrats also won. Three of the Republicans put up against the incumbent Senators were House members; Democrats captured those three seats...
...Nevada, Democrat Mike O'Callaghan and Republican Ed Fike both took a hard line on crime and campus disturbances. It did not hurt O'Callaghan, a former schoolteacher, that the Republicans bungled a rebuttal to Columnist Jack Anderson's charges that Fike had taken part in shady land deals...
...Nixon senatorial candidates rode the law and order issue to victory in New York. Connecticut, Maryland, Tennessce, and Ohio. Democrats held onto seats in Texas, Nevada, Utah, and North Dakota and won a Republican seat in California...
Four sparsely populated Western states with Democratic Senators were the special targets of Nixon-Agnew assaults. In all four the voters returned the incumbents to office with convincing majorities. Sen. Howard Cannon of Nevada, Sen. Quentin Burdick of North Dakota, Sen. Gale McGee of Wyoming, and Sen. Frank Moss of Utah all won with better than 55 per cent...
...remote and all but empty (pop. 430) county of Alpine, Calif., is a pristine wonderland of majestic peaks, verdant pine forests, and crystalline lakes nestled high in the rugged Sierra Nevada. From their isolation its residents have long gazed in amusement at doings of the urbanites below. Tough mountaineers, woodsmen and fishermen all, they have preserved the pioneer purity of their independent existence. Now that existence stands threatened, and by as unlikely a force as could be imagined-the militant homosexuals of the Gay Liberation Front...