Word: racing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hooray for Richard Nixon! He has survived presidential defeat in 1960, his personal nadir in the 1962 California Governor's race, the 1964 Republican fiasco, and even L.B.J., to reunite the Republican Party and become President. Political shades of Horatio Alger...
...hard, realistic, profit-minded basis, any advertising agency that had at its disposal the millions of dollars the Republicans spent, the scads of top echelon organizational brains, and four years of "scientific" advance planning, yet could only bring forth a neck-and-neck race, would be headed for extinction...
First of all, I observed that there was much more writing in the men's lavatories than in the women's. Second, I noticed that in the men's lavatories the greatest volume of graffiti was concerned with race relations first, Viet Nam second, and sex third...
...Oregon's senatorial race, the Election Night suspense persisted for days. Last week it became obvious that, in one of 1968's major upsets, 36-year-old Portland Attorney Robert W. Packwood had dislodged Democrat Wayne Morse, 68, from the Senate seat that he has occupied for 24 years. At week's end, Packwood held a thin 3,554 margin over Morse out of 814,418 votes cast. Morse will demand a recount. Unless it reverses the verdict, however, the brilliantly erratic Democrat-and onetime Republican-will retire to raise cattle on his Willamette Valley farm...
...resemble the fearsome, head-butting New York squads of the late '50s, the Giants are on their way to their first winning season in five years. They left Dallas with a record of six victories and three loss es, trailing the Cowboys by only one game in the race for the N.F.L.'s Capitol Division title. And they have one more date with the Cowboys on Dec. 15. The way the schedule shapes up, it could be winner take...