Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city's defenses were formidable: 12,000 policemen, 6,000 Illinois National Guardsmen and-on stand-by at suburban naval posts-6,000 Army troops equipped with rifles, flamethrowers and bazookas. Even before the convention began, the police were working twelve-hour shifts: at the height of the trouble, some policemen were on duty as long as 17 hours at a stretch and were obviously under tremendous stress...
...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...
...Northern states did he wrench away a massive blue-collar vote. In Boston's working-class districts, for example, Humphrey tallied 74% of the vote to Wallace's 24%. In poorer white sections of Detroit, pre-election Wallace partisans flocked back to the Democratic Party, joining Negroes, suburban whites and elderly voters to swing Michigan's 21 electoral votes to Humphrey by 151,-000 votes. Many Wallaceites also defected in Southern and Border states upon which he had counted. "They all talked hard," said Republican State Chairman Bill Murfin of Florida, "but the softness was there...
...backlash. In Ohio, for example, Republican Frances P. Bolton was defeated by Democratic Representative Charles A. Vanik. The deciding factor was Mrs. Bolton's age: she is 83, Vanik 55. In Missouri, Democrat James W. Symington, 41, handsome former chief of protocol for the U.S. State Department, took the suburban St. Louis County district that Republican Thomas Curtis left to run for the U.S. Senate. Symington's name did not hurt him: he is the son of Senator and former Air Force Secretary Stuart Symington...
...first four starts in 1966 as a two-year-old, swept six in one stretch in 1967. This year Dr. Fager has raced only in stakes events, romped to victory in such prestigious handicaps as Aqueduct's $108,000 Suburban, Saratoga's $53,500 Whitney and Chicago's $100,000 Washington Park, in which he set a new world record of 1 min. 32 1/5 sec. for the mile...