Word: statehooder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hawaii went, Puerto Rico will not go. That seemed to be the message handed down by the island's voters in this month's election. They turned out of office Governor Luis Ferré, 68, an advocate of statehood, and installed in his place Rafael Hernández Colón, 36, a handsome and articulate supporter of Puerto Rico's 20-year commonwealth ties to the United States...
...heart attack; in Amritsar, India. As spiritual and political guru of the Sikhs, a monotheistic cult concentrated in India's Punjab region, Sant Fateh Singh used public fasts and periodic threats of self-immolation to pressure the central government to grant his people statehood within the Indian federal system...
Hawaii voted for a Republican President for the first time since receiving statehood in 1959 Southern states went heavily for Nixon. In some of them, he received over 35 per cent of the vote...
...myself, my family and my home." To rekindle idealism, many collectives now require young people to serve for a year on a newly established kibbutz. For this reason, and because kibbutzniks performed so heroically in the Six-Day War, the movement is regaining the prestige that it lost when statehood came, and Israelis are seeing the communes as symbols of self-sacrifice...
Hickel finished high school with "something below a C average," won a Golden Gloves championship, and left to seek his fortune. Penniless but self-confident, he arrived in Alaska in 1940. By 1953 he was a respected businessman (real estate and construction) and a leading proponent of Alaskan statehood. Though politics at first did not appeal to him ("I never was much of a joiner"), a California Republican named Richard Nixon did. Hickel worked for Nixon during the 1960 campaign and before the one in 1964. Taking time off from the national scene, he surprised everyone but himself...