Word: regions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...around 240, the tenor of the House becomes decidedly conservative, because so many of the Democrats are either Southern conservatives or machine men from the Northern cities. To reduce Democratic totals to a figure considerably below 240, the Republicans are counting on big victories i the Middle Atlantic region, where the party may gain six House seats and in the 14 Rocky Mountain, Southwest and Far West states, where a net pickup of seven is probable...
...hard line on the war is a problem that has dogged Humphrey. With his televised speech, the Vice President again tried, harder than before, to place some distance between himself and the President. During the week, Humphrey also made his first extended foray into the South, a region whose strong support for Nixon and Alabama's George Wallace has been another major Humphrey headache. It turned out to be the most rousing tour of his disappointing campaign, topping off his most successful week to date...
...under the waters of a reservoir. Both are victims of one of the most ambitious and controversial public-works schemes in U.S. history-the $1.2 billion Arkansas Basin Navigation Project. Formally dedicated in Little Rock last week, the project has been both praised as a plan to revolutionize the region and assailed as a silly extravagance...
...energy, recreation and freight. Up and down the river, land prices have soared-in one case from $25 an acre to $2,500 with no ceiling yet in sight. Boats have become as ubiquitous as second cars. Supporters of the project claim that cheap transportation will tap the landlocked region's raw materials and enrich 8,000,000 citizens of eight states...
...bootlegged into Spain, and it quickly became a cause célèbre on many social levels. The duchess's restaurant meals were constantly interrupted by waiters who had read the book and simply wanted to shake her hand. The book was avidly read in her home region of Andalusia, where the novel is set. There she is respected not only as a horse woman but for her deep and continuing concern with the problems of the peasants. Separated from her husband, she lives with her three children and has now completed a second novel...