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McGovern also did poorly with groups which have traditionally been the backbone of the Democratic party. McGovern became the first Democrat in history to lose a majority of the Roman Catholic vote. The South Dakota Senator also became the first Democrat in recent memory to not carry blue collar workers...
Drinan, a 51-year old Roman Catholic has narrowly carried the three major towns in the eastern part of the district Newton, Waltham and Brookline...
Although McGovern carried Mayor Daley's bailiwick of Chicago, he did not do well enough there and lost the state. Nixon garnered the Prairie State's 26 electoral votes with 57 per cent of the popular vote. Republican Senator Charles Percy turned back a challenge from Roman Pucinski as expected with 60 per cent of the vote. In perhaps GOP governor Richard Ogilvie and Democratic challenger Daniel Walker were locked in a tight race that would probably not be decided until the woe hours of the morning...
...militia units and fiercely denounced all opposition. When a Buddhist monk set himself on fire to protest Diem's repression, Mme. Nhu ridiculed the immolation as a "barbecue." Touring abroad when her husband and Diem were slain in 1963, Mme. Nhu took up residence in a commodious, ocher-colored Roman villa purchased with funds the family had accumulated during the years of power. Now 48, she still lives there with her three children in almost complete seclusion, under the supervision of Archbishop Ngo Dinh Thuc, 75, Diem's oldest brother. She was last heard from in a statement saying...
...been rumored for weeks, this year's winner is West German Novelist Heinrich Böll, respected man of letters, prominent leftist Roman Catholic intellectual, and among the earliest and most insistent examiners of his country's conscience since World War II. Still, the award did not escape gossip and second-guessing. The judges of Stockholm never publicly argue or explain their choice, but surely something more than art is involved...