Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unable to dent Mayor Daley's turf in Chicago, Percy has also failed to hold the traditional Republican flank in the rural areas downstate, despite visits of the "chuckwagon"--a station wagon filled with his handsome family--at almost every fair in the past two years. An eager, freshly scrubbed Chicago businessman, Percy has aroused no passion and even awakened some vague distrust in farmers who respect Kerner as an able, hardworking man who has not sought new tax revenue for use in urban projects...
From Rugby to Royalties. Moral Re-Armer Howard could hardly be more unlike Buchman, who was a mild-mannered rural pastor and Y.M.C.A. worker until he founded the Oxford Group. M.R.A.'s predecessor. Lean, trim and handsome at 56, Howard was in his day one of Oxford's athletic greats, eight times a star on Britain's international rugby team. In 1941, as the best-known and most biting political columnist in Lord Beaverbrook's stable, he was assigned to write some pieces about M.R.A. and ended up joining it. He owns and operates a model...
Moyers later enrolled at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, also worked fulltime as its information director. He preached in rural churches, was ordained as a Baptist teacher but not a minister, intended to teach ethics at Baylor University, but changed his plans in 1959 when Johnson asked him to join his Senate staff. In a matter of months, Johnson hiked Moyers' salary from $10,000 to $15,000, made him executive assistant during his 1960 vice-presidential campaign...
...through election night, Labor's jubilation mounted as its margin seemed to rise. When counting ended for the night, Harold Wilson's party was 67 seats ahead. But next day, as the delayed rural results came in, Labor's lead began to dwindle sharply. By noon it was down to 37. An hour later it was only 19. In the end, with 630 seats at stake, Labor had won 317, or a majority of only four. The Tories carried 304 constituencies, down 56. The minuscule Liberal Party had nine, up two from the last Parliament, and Liberal...
...Material came from home too. When Ethel Merman sang the funny patter song By the Mississine-wah in 1943's Something for the Boys, she was singing about the river that flowed through the 750-acre property in rural Indiana, where Cole Porter was raised. His father was an Indiana fruitgrower, and his grandfather was a coal and timber baron worth $50 million. As a boy, Porter was a prodigy who was writing songs before he was ten. When he got to Yale (class of 1913), he immortalized the college mascot; Yalemen will remember him forever as the chap...