Word: towerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson probably spared his prestige a painful blow by retreating to Texas instead of going out politicking. Save for Montana, where Senator Lee Metcalf won the only major race, Democrats suffered serious defeats in every state that the President had planned to visit. Even in Texas, Republican Senator John Tower crushed Democrat Waggoner Carr. According to a gag making the Washington rounds. "Lyndon...
Texas Republican John Tower, 41, who in 1961 became the state's first post-Reconstruction G.O.P. Senator largely as a result of feudin' and fussin' among Lone Star Democrats, benefited from renewed dissension and managed to hang onto Lyndon Johnson's old seat against Democratic Attorney General Waggoner Carr, 48. The G.O.P. also elected two Congressmen?one of them Houston Oilman George Bush, 42, son of former Connecticut Senator Prescott Bush?bringing the party's congressional strength back to what it was before the 23-member Texas delegation went solidly Democratic...
Certain branches of the Government have picked up techniques like Cramer's. The Air Force, for instance, will employ his findings to delay speech in one ear for pilots and control tower operators who must communicate through noise interference. Cramer has discovered that a listener tends, as he hears another person speak to latch on to certain tonal qualities in the speaker's voice. As he listens, he will be able to hear and comprehend what the person is saying even through noise interference. With this in mind, instead of speeding speech to save time, Cramer has developed a process...
High atop a mountain, a gust toppled a transmission tower; a crackling power line dropped into the brush and started a fire. Winds up to 50 m.p.h. quickly whipped blazes into conflagrations that ruined 2,100 acres of the Angeles National Forest, killed 14 fire fighters and severely burned twelve others. Even those not directly threatened by the flames felt the wrath of the Santa Ana. Temperatures in downtown Los Angeles rose to a stifling 100°; extremely low humidity dried the throats, chapped the lips, and helped bring an unaccustomed irritability to untold millions of Southern Californians...
...TEXAS 67% of the vote GOVERNOR Connally (D)* 584,000 Kennerly (R) 203,000 U.S. SENATOR Tower (R)* 463,000 Carr (D) 389,000 U.S. House (23): +2 Republican, 1 undecided...