Word: toledo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JAMES M. MELLON Toledo Sir: Add my name to those petitioning for the resignation of Defense Secretary McNamara...
...with the sawed-off broomstick she used to stir the family wash. As an eighth-grader, Ara was everybody's nomination for Toughest Kid in school?even the Board of Education's. "They were having a lot of trouble with vandals breaking windows," recalls Older Brother Gerard, 43, a Toledo businessman. "So they just hired Ara to patrol the grounds. The checks came directly from the Board of Education. He was real proud of that...
Heavily unionized areas, such as Lucas County (Toledo), bludgeoned Taft by giving Young a 33,000-vote plurality out of 179,900 votes; Nixon lost that county by only 8,000 votes. Said young Bob in an election postmortem: "The organized-labor vote was very effective in the Ohio campaign. It was just about the whole campaign organization. I suspect they were effective because they stayed behind the scenes and ran things quietly...
...bishop's words seemed to have an effect. At week's end both labor and management were talking again, in a settlement effort shifted to neutral ground in Toledo, Ohio...
...crucial Midwest, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Democratic since Alf Landon) predictably chose L.B.J.; the Toledo Times broke a 116-year-old tradition and followed suit, while the Cincinnati Enquirer opted for Barry, and the Wisconsin State Journal decided, "We cannot honestly recommend either candidate to-the voters." Not surprisingly, one of the nation's largest Negro newspapers, the Pittsburgh Courier, editorialized for Johnson. Also in the L.B.J. column were the Louisville Courier-Journal, and New Hampshire's Concord Daily Monitor. LIFE Magazine, which said of L.B.J. last week: "We think he deserves his own full term...