Word: ohio
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...Nixon's 1968 campaign slogans came from a poster held up by a young girl in Ohio. What did the poster...
...Ohio Republican Congressman Sam Devine, a former Columbus prosecutor, was on the yacht Sequoia with the President and eight other conservative congressional friends last week. Devine cast his courtroom eye over the man, looking for the signs of pressure. A little older all over, thought Devine. The crow's-feet around the eyes were deeper. Gray in the presidential eyebrows. He watched Nixon's hands, an old courtroom tactic. "No tremors at all," said Devine later. "His gestures were good. When the President talked, he looked me directly...
...much the evidence of particular crimes as the moral squalor revealed in the transcripts. "This is the most nauseating thing I have ever read," declared a hitherto 100% Nixon loyalist, Louis Wyman of New Hampshire, who is not given to overstatement. Said Republican John Ashbrook, a conservative Representative from Ohio: "I listened to the President on television last Monday night, and for the first time in a year I believed him. Then I read the March 21 [1973] transcript, and it was incredible, unbelievable." Complained Massachusetts Republican Congressman Silvio Conte about the transcripts: "I have a better quality of conversation...
Only in the Ohio Democratic Senate primary did the predicted pattern hold up. At stake was nomination for the seat vacated by Republican William Saxbe when he became U.S. Attorney General. Millionaire Businessman Howard Metzenbaum, 56, serving temporarily by appointment, was challenged by John Glenn, 52, the retired astronaut and Marine colonel who is now a franchise partner in five Holiday Inns. When the two last competed for a Senate nomination in 1970, Metzenbaum, with eight years' experience as a state legislator and an efficient, well-financed campaign, beat Glenn. Metzenbaum then lost in the general election to Robert...
...brief illness; in South Bend, Ind. O'Malley arrived at Notre Dame in 1928 as a freshman from Clinton, Mass., and stayed there for the rest of his life, living in student residence halls. His unconventional, deeply spiritual approach to literature endeared him to generations of students, including Ohio Governor John Gilligan and the late novelist Edwin O'Connor. Students flocked to his courses in such numbers that O'Malley had to screen them for admission. Renowned for producing a prodigious crop of fellowship winners, the quiet bachelor once described his favorite pastime as "writing letters...