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...carried New York City with 63% of the vote, far more than enough to take New York State's 45 electoral votes. Nixon ran well in outstate Michigan-but Kennedy grabbed a big lead in Detroit and held on. It was Los Angeles-always considered Nixon's stronghold-that gave Kennedy California...
Kentucky. A onetime ambassador to India and U.S. delegate to the U.N., Republican John Sherman Cooper, 59, has his stronghold in the eastern Kentucky of miners, moonshiners and McCoys. After an Ivy League education (Yale, Harvard Law), he spent 25 years paying off debts left by his politician father. In and out of the Senate since 1946, strapping Baptist Cooper is one of his party's most distinguished liberals, an ardent supporter of foreign aid and civil rights...
...election will probably hinge on two of the state's most populous areas, industrial Hudson County that includes Jersey City and Bayonne, and suburban Bergen County that is one of the nation's highest per capita income sections. Bergen, long a Republican stronghold, went for Eisenhower by 170,000 votes in 1956. Carl Jellinghaus, assistant managing editor of the Bergen Evening Record, predicts that Bergen will deliver a 60,000 margin for Nixon on Tuesday. This is far less than 170,000, but Jellinghaus explains that any comparison with Eisenhower is "not fair...
...often-repeated indictment of the United States and its allies as colonialists. Castro's barrage against the "Yankees" could seriously weakes U.S. control over votes of the 19 Latin American nations. Plank believes Castro may have "considerable success in establishing an alliance between the Latin American nations--once a stronghold of U.S. support--and the Afro-Asian group...
...Patrice Lumumba but were turned back by a Ghanaian officer of the U.N. corps because the warrant was not properly drawn. A big river boat loaded with 400 soldiers pulled up at a Leopoldville dock, and the panicky word went out that they were Lumumba troops from his upriver stronghold of Stanleyville. Truckloads of Mobutu's forces raced to the dock, escorted by jeeps armed with bazookas, recoilless rifles and machine guns. In the excitement, an armored car fired a wild shot into the river before it was learned that the new arrivals were a timid group of recruits...