Word: slate
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Other early victories for the Democratic slate included those of incumbents Carl Hayden of Arizona and Mike Monroney of Oklahoma in the Southwest, and Brien MacMahon of Connecticut and Governor John O. Pastore of Rhode Island...
Massachusetts Democrats achieved their first off-year gubernatorial victory in 16 years yesterday when incumbent Governor Paul A. Dever and virtually the entire Democratic slate were elected...
These, however, are only surface issues. Behind the facade of party loyalty, neither group of adherents in entirely happy about its slate. While Dever may have been a success as a governor, his lieutenants, for whom he is responsible, have not done so well. Francis E. Kelly, his attorney general who is running for re-election, has been accused of bungling his investigations particularly the Brinks case and of allowing graft. When the lone Republican member of the Metropolitan District Commission requested a look into the Commission's files last month, the four Democratic members refused. The Republicans went...
...slate-grey and black-barred peregrine falcon (duck hawk) is one of the speediest and most powerful of all flying organisms. It flies on the level at 60 m.p.h., dives at 180, knocks out its quarry (birds up to the size of duck) with its steely talons, kills only what it will eat. Its attacks are always made from open sky, and what it does not kill with the first attack, it seldom bothers to pursue. The late Gerald H. Thayer once admiringly described the peregrine falcon as a "powerful, wild, majestic, independent bird, living on the choicest of clean...
Thus, the Democrats, who count heavily on urban votes, have a ticket top heavy with Irish Catholics. The Republican slate, on the other hand, has a great many Protestants with English names--who live largely in surburban and rural districts...