Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WITH one week to go in the presidential campaign, Hubert Humphrey's late surge has whittled Republican leads in Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington to almost nothing and placed several more states in the tossup category. Still, the Democrats cannot claim to have won any new states, and a nationwide survey by TIME correspondents shows that Richard Nixon is likely to carry 29 states commanding 278 Electoral College votes (needed for election: 270 votes...
NIXON LEADING: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Total electoral votes: 320 (needed for victory...
TOSSUPS: Florida, Michigan, Missouri, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Total electoral votes...
...syntax, too, goes beyond even Henry James and Virginia Woolf. He twists and doubles back so much, one often has to parse his verse to make it come out, and even then it doesn't always work...
...past, at least 18 Negroes have tried to crack Cincinnati's all-white Local 212 of the International Brother hood of Electrical Workers, but none has been better qualified or more persistent than Anderson L. Dobbins, 37. A graduate of Virginia's Hampton Institute, a predominantly Negro liberal arts college, he passed a city electrician's exam in Newport News, Va. In Cincinnati, he tried off and on for years to join the local-in vain. The union said he had to get work before he could be a member; the employers said he could not work...