Word: tides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beat Argentina by two strokes. - Underdog Georgia Tech: a 7-6 victory over previously unbeaten. No. 2-ranked Alabama. Tech Fullback Mike McNames intercepted a pass in the second quarter, scored two plays later; Quarterback Billy Lothridge kicked the extra point that handed Bear Bryant's Crimson Tide its first loss in 27 games. Wisconsin mowed down Illinois 35-6. needed only to defeat Minnesota to win the Big Ten championship and a trip to the Rose Bowl. But No. 1-ranked Southern California barely held off Navy, 13-6. unbeaten Missouri lost to Oklahoma and Northwestern was trampled...
Among Democrats, Michigan's Neil Staebler ran a back-breaking campaign, lured former G.O.P. Congressman Alvin Bentley into reckless remarks in face-to-face debate, won an at-large seat despite the Romney tide. New York's Samuel Stratton, who tried unsuccessfully for the gubernatorial nomination, scored an upset victory in a Republican-gerrymandered district. California's Gus Hawkins, 55, a 28-year veteran of the state assembly and a New Frontiersman, became the first Negro from west of the Rockies to reach the House. He defeated another Negro, Republican Herman T. Smith...
Talk about Tide. Republicans won some surprising victories in contests for state and local offices, made some respectable showings elsewhere. In three counties in North Carolina, G.O.P. candidates swept every major contested office, upsetting the speaker of the state legislature's lower house in a contest for a state senate seat. In South Carolina, Newspaperman William D. Workman Jr., who joined the Republican Party only a year ago, gathered 43% of the votes for U.S. Senator in a race against Incumbent Olin Johnston. In the Texas gubernatorial contest, Republican Jack Cox lost to Democrat John B. Connally, former Navy...
Republican National Chairman William E. Miller hailed his party's gains in the South as a "breakthrough." Crowed I. Lee Potter, head of the Republican National Committee's Operation Dixie: "The tide is coming in now in the South...
Well, the tide still has a long way to come. Much of the G.O.P.'s Southern showing was certainly due to regional anger over the Democratic Administration's actions in Mississippi. But a much more important factor was that Southern Republicans, for the first time in decades, were really trying. If they keep on, they may bring about the weightiest shift that domestic U.S. politics has felt in almost a century...