Word: rhodes
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...EAST: Democratic Romp Of the region's 149 electoral votes, Hubert Humphrey may win 79 and Richard Nixon 24, with 46 uncertain. For Humphrey: Connecticut (8), District of Columbia (3), Massachusetts (14), New York (43), Rhode Island (4) and West Virginia (7). For Nixon: Delaware (3), Maine (4), Maryland (10), New Hampshire (4) and Vermont...
With Nixon on the ballot, New York would probably go Democratic, whoever the party's candidate may be. Nelson Rockefeller, on the other hand, would probably carry the state, as well as Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, while turning the Massachusetts and Rhode Island races into photo finishes and losing Delaware to the Democrats. While Massachusetts has a Republican Governor and one G.O.P. Senator, its predominantly Democratic voters have little enthusiasm for Nixon. In Connecticut, city votes are expected to outweigh Nixon's strength in affluent downstate counties. Pennsylvania gave 51.2% of its votes to John F. Kennedy...
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...campaign against Conservative Robert Stanfield, the sensible but restrained former premier of Nova Scotia, may have irrevocably changed the pace and style of Canadian politics. In a DC-9 jet and a helicopter, Trudeau bounced around the country as if it were the size of Rhode Island. Wherever he went, he brought glamour, style, movement. Matrons as well as teeny-boppers flocked to his side. He stressed participation, involvement, brought together a campaign army of talented, worshipful political amateurs as well as old pros. "This country is just beginning to burst into its greatness," he said in speeches reminiscent...
...consternation of the Government, however, it was a gesture that is suddenly becoming familiar in churches throughout the nation. Virtually the same scene was played out two weeks ago in Manhattan's Washington Square United Methodist Church, which had offered sanctuary to Draft Resister Donald C. Baty. Two Rhode Island draft evaders holed up for four days in Providence's Unitarian Church of the Mediator this month, before police moved in and arrested them. Boston's venerable Arlington Street Unitarian Universalist Church has twice offered similar haven, and three San Francisco churches-one Presbyterian, one Methodist...