Word: precincts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wife Karen (Lee Remick) split up. That is bad enough, but then it turns out that she is a nymphomaniac who likes to pick up guys in bars. His world is coming apart, and so is the movie-with a rush of irrelevancies about slum conditions and precinct-house rivalries. Suddenly, a complex new subplot is folded into the proceedings, about a financial wheeler-dealer who commits suicide...
SOMEHOW, McCarthy remained a distant, dangerous politician to the community. He hadn't visited the McCarthy in each precinct. By noon, we knew only a handful were registered voters. In one precinct, the vote ran: Branigin, 25; McCarthy, 27; area, as Kennedy had. It probably would have made much difference. Paul Newman had visited Barrington and received a cool reception. The people couldn't be talked out of Kennedy. Their reasons for voting for him had hardened. Some left he would clean up the garbage. One woman preferred McCarthy, but said she would vote for Bobby because he "quivers...
...drew only laughs from bystanders. A girl wedged in a police van saw her plight in grandiose terms. "First they arrest the workers and now the intellectuals!" she shouted. As demonstrators were dragged or shoved into vans, unsympathetic students applauded, demanded: "More police! More police!" Among those booked at precinct stations that morning were a surprisingly large sprinkling of students from other campuses, nearby high schools, and even from no schools at all..They were all released on bail, and their cases will be heard in June...
...Colorado, where several thousand Democratic precinct caucuses met on Monday evening, Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey appears to have taken a substantial number of them, but not a majority...
...many political novices for neighborhood caucus votes, and a well-organized McCarthy effort in Colorado produced unprecedented turn-outs in many areas. The energy in the McCarthy camp put pressure on the Humphrey forces to bring out the vote. Together they came up with the highest voting figures for precinct caucuses in Colorado history...