Word: reals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...image, he entered six primaries, won them all- frightening off Michigan's Governor George Romney before the balloting even began in New Hampshire, and forcing New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller into fatal blunders of indecision. California's Governor Ronald Reagan was never a real threat; besides, after the 1964 Goldwater disaster, the G.O.P.'s centrist and progressive wings wanted nothing more to do with the chimeras of the right. Nixon won almost effortlessly in Miami Beach, and without tearing the party apart...
...Democratic Convention. When he bade good night to loyal Democratic Party workers in the ballroom of the Leamington Hotel in Minneapolis at 2:30 a.m. on Nov. 6, the Vice President was racing neck and neck against Richard Nixon. Crucial states were still teetering. "It's a real Donnybrook," Humphrey declared with characteristic ebullience. Yet the grin was grim. Giving endless thanks to his staff, family and supporters, Humphrey spoke less like a man who still entertained hope than like one who was recounting a heroic foray that had failed...
...turned out, the cause lost some of its urgency; McCarthy, instead of being a major voice for reform, became more than ever a voice crying out in a wilderness of his own making. He will undoubtedly retain much emotional appeal for his followers, but inside the Democratic Party his real power-always limited-to work change is greatly diminished. Outside the party, perhaps as head of some coalition of youth, suburbanites, college teachers and Minnesota partisans, his influence could be even smaller. Obviously it is time for him to think second thoughts-second thoughts that McCarthy was clearly already pondering...
...TEXAS. Horn-rimmed glasses and a jaunty Stetson are the trademarks of Conservative Democrat Preston D. Smith, 56. The horn rims belong to the real estate entrepreneur and 18-year veteran of public office who had to work his way through high school at such jobs as picking cotton and pumping gas. The Stetsoned Smith is the campaigning frontiersman who flew to 249 of Texas' 254 counties to shake hands and exude confidence. Horn rims or hat, there was more than enough Smith to defeat Republican Paul W. Eggers...
...another. Finally, after eight hours, the last of some 250 pre-1905 cars to make the annual 50-mile "Old Crocks' Race," puffed, wheezed and whistled into town, piloted by a collection of antique-car buffs who consider themselves the royalty of the auto world. Appropriately enough, some real royalty was on hand for the proceedings: Monaco's Prince Rainier, at the wheel of a 1903 De Dion Bouton, accompanied by Princess Grace and ten-year-old Prince Albert. With a smile, the Princess admitted that the open car had been a bit chilly and that...