Word: township
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only in 1964 did the machine falter. The county joined LBJ's landslide victory over Barry Goldwater. Nether Providence, a township just south of Media, did not join the festivities. Goldwater won big there, as did Nixon in 1960, 1968, and 1972. The machine in Nether Providence clicked, whirred, and continued to hum, smoothly functioning as it is today...
...issue, although inconsistently, two-thirds of the panel predict that the campaign will be fought primarily on issues. For the first time in these surveys, there is some significant opinion among Democrats (one out of seven) that McGovern may be too radical on issues. Bookkeeper Jeanette Senkowski of Redford Township, Mich., thinks McGovern "changes his positions too often; whatever the polls say, he will...
...limits of the American dream. Now many U.S. families can hardly function without at least two cars, and so overfulfilled is the dream that at least one community has found it necessary to regulate it. To ease the four-wheel clutter in the streets, the Cincinnati suburb of Green Township now requires all new houses to be built with two-car garages...
Belford residents are rebelling against tax increases. Last year they surprisingly voted for a Democratic township administration in what has always been a Republican bastion. They also voted down a school bond issue. Last year 200 first, second-and third-grade students were crowded into a 65-year-old red brick elementary school. Then fire authorities threatened to condemn the building's second floor, which has only one wooden staircase and an inadequate fire exit. More than half the pupils were transferred to nearby schools, compounding the crowding problem...
...Smith has called "the happiest Africans in the world"-went on a rampage. For three consecutive nights more than 8,000 angry Africans rioted in Gwelo, Rhodesia's fourth largest city, burning buildings and hurling stones at white-owned cars. The trouble spread to Salisbury's Harare township and to Bulawayo, Fort Victoria and Umtali, where eight blacks were killed by police gunfire. By week's end 18 persons were dead (including two white helicopter crewmen) and at least 80 wounded...