Word: solids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Humphrey's not-so-secret ally, received 31%; McCarthy polled 27%. While Kennedy failed both to roll up a ma jority and to demolish McCarthy, the timing of his first-place finish and his surprisingly broad base of support gave the New Yorker's campaign a solid, if less than meteoric, boost...
...towns. He won 90% of the Negro vote, yet held his own in many of the white, working-class precincts that gave George Wallace a heavy vote in the 1964 Democratic primary. He turned on the electorate in low-income neighborhoods, where voting is not habitual, to produce solid crowds at the polls. And he succeeded in the face of several handicaps. Indiana is a basically conservative state. The Democratic organization, labor-union leadership and the state's two largest newspapers did their best to torpedo Kennedy...
...present. Scene: a jazz club anywhere. Starting with Coin' Out of My Head, Wes's pop-jazz albums have brought a huge, diverse new audience thronging to his in-person appearances. For a solid nine months, one or the other of his recordings has held the No. 1 spot in Billboard's bestseller chart of jazz LPs. This week A Day in the Life, which has sold a whopping 250,000 copies, is at the top of the chart for the 32nd consecutive week...
...varsity baseball team next year will be losing its infield and a couple of outfielders. The seniors on the squad include Carter Lord, team captain, and shortstop Jeff Grate. But with the freshmen coming up the Crimson nine will be solid next year...
...group has been noticeably under the weather in past appearances this year, especially since the departure of permanent conductor James Yannatos, it is now on the way toward a total recovery. Appearing with a string section pared down to the absolute minimum, the orchestra seems to have reached a solid foundation on which to begin reconstruction. Next year, if full size can be reached without diluting present competence, the orchestra should be prepared to indulge all but the wildest programming whims...