Word: north
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lincoln land, along with many other areas in the North, seemed fertile ground indeed for Wallace's third-party candidacy. About 3,000 people greeted him at the airport in Illinois' capital city, many driving as far as 100 miles and waiting hours under a hot sun to hear him take out after "scummy anarchists" and pseudo intellectuals. In Springfield, Mo., he drew the biggest political crowd ever to assemble in the city square-more than 10,000 people. In Milwaukee, 5,000 filed into the municipal auditorium, along with 600 hecklers, to listen to Wallace...
...assumption that Wallace will damage Nixon in the South and Humphrey in the North may be at least partly wrong. In Southern and Border states, he does threaten Nixon. A late Wallace surge could give the Alabamian five more states?the Carolinas, Tennessee, Florida and Arkansas ?and swell his electoral vote to 91. Or it could siphon enough votes away from Nixon to enable Humphrey to eke out a few unexpected victories. In the North, Wallace is cutting into the normally Democratic blue-collar wards. But a substantial number of those votes might have gone to Nixon this year...
...morning last week the citizens of Tay Ninh awoke to find Communist soldiers roaming the streets of their provincial capital, 55 miles northwest of Saigon. Three regiments of Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops had maneuvered around Tay Ninh in the shad ow of Nui Ba Den, the Black Virgin mountain. Some Communist units hit outlying defense posts. Others slipped into the city before dawn under cover of a rocket and mortar barrage and dug into foxholes...
...Ninh was only the latest in a series of Viet Cong and North Vietnamese moves that have been puzzling to the Allies. The Communists continue a buildup of forces around Due Lap, a district capital of little strategic importance that was the scene last month of the summer's heaviest fighting. Though they have already lost more than 800 men in their unsuccessful attacks on Due Lap, they keep plugging away...
...seventh district includes mainly suburbs north of Boston--Arlington, Belmont, Winchester, Saugus, Medford, and other nearby communities...