Word: southernism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist governments welcomed Nixon's election, especially such rightist strongholds as South Africa, Rhodesia and Portugal. It was only in Greece, however, that people actually celebrated the event. The cause for Greek enthusiasm, of course, was Spiro T. Agnew, whose father, Theophrastos Anagnostopoulos, was born in Gargalianoi in southern Greece. Of the town's present 7,000 inhabitants about 300 are named Anagnostopoulos...
...first thing to look at is geography," Peter K. Gunness '57, Director of the Financial Aid Office of Harvard College, said. He compared the mailing of applications with election returns, in which results come in last from the rural and Southern areas of the country. He said that the suburban and prep school students are counseled better than applicants from lower income groups so that the former would tend to send in applications earlier. He added that the growth of suburbia contributes to the rise in applications...
Looking to '70. Several incumbents seemed unassailable. Hawaii's Daniel K. Inouye, a Johnson-lining Democrat, swept up 85% of the vote against Wayne Thiessen, a conservative Republican. Almost equally decisive were the victories of the Southern Democratic veterans? Georgia's Herman Talmadge, North Carolina's Sam Ervin and South Carolina's Ernest Hollings. Among the staunchest Democratic liberals, Connecticut's Abe Ribicoff won comfortably, while Birch Bayh overcame the Nixon trend in Indiana. Humphrey's New York victory did not faze Republican Jacob Javits, whose plurality exceeded 1,000,000. Among the easily elected conservative Republicans were Illinois' Everett...
...remained a relatively minor issue until this summer when President Ferdinand Marcos seized on it as a handy way to win votes for next year's national elections. In what appears to have been a bid for support from the 3,000,000 Moslems living in the southern parts of the archipelago, Marcos dredged up the issue and signed a congressional bill asserting Philippine sovereignty over Sabah. The Philippine Moslems, who are mostly underprivileged and poor, would like access to Sabah's prospering economy. They also feel a kinship with Sabah's 200,000 Moslems...
...effort to attract Mexican-Americans and Indians to the Business School is being carried out largely by College Relations Group of the Alumni Council in Southern California, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah...