Word: totalled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dissidents back into the fold after they had sulked for a suitable time. When the vote tallying began, it swiftly became apparent that the Vice President had scored enough of a comeback to make the election as breathtakingly close as the 1960 cliffhanger. With more than 92% of the total popular vote counted, in fact, Nixon's plurality was fewer than 250,000 votes out of 68 million (v. Kennedy's 119,000 out of 69 million...
Maryland. Liberal Republican Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr. can thank an indefatigable Irishman for sending him to the Senate. The vote for Independent George P. Mahoney, an eight-time loser of Wallace-type opinions, cut into the total for liberal Democratic Incumbent Daniel B. Brewster. Winner Mathias, 46, a hard-working House member since 1961, has backed civil rights, education bills, Medicare, Appalachian aid, rent supplements and even rat control...
...statehouses were decided early and decisively. Republicans entered the election holding 26 governorships to the Democrats' 24; of the 21 statehouses on the line this year, 13 were in Democratic hands, eight held by the G.O.P. When the returns were sorted, the Republicans had gained five governorships, raising their total to 31?more than double their 1960 low of 14 statehouses. The G.O.P. now had control of six of the nation's most populous states (California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania), if only for a while. Governors, after all, are notoriously vulnerable to voter anger, as many...
...interested in the elaborate procedures required for a legal solution. Another factor is cost. Specialists have to be called in to confirm the medical justification advanced, and their fees, added to the usual cost of even minor surgery and a short stay in the hospital, can run the total bill up to $2,000. Many women who can afford such costs prefer to go to Mexico or Puerto Rico, where abortion, although illegal, is easily arranged, with a competent gynecologist performing the operation...
...sievelike defense. Allen installed an uncomplicated ball-control offense, similar to Green Bay's, backed up by a brutal defense that relies heavily on the charge of the "Fearsome Four-some"-Ends "Deacon" Jones and Lamar Lundy, Tackles Merlin Olsen and Roger Brown. Between them, they weigh a total of 1,096 Ibs. Last season the Fearsome Foursome flattened opposing quarterbacks 43 times; this year they have already accomplished the feat 27 times-tops in the league...