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Word: wente (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nixon won in this state--the only one outside of the deep South which went for Goldwater in 1964. Arizona not only gave Nixon its 9 electoral votes, but elected Goldwater to take retiring Carl Hayden's place in the Senate. As he left for a sixty-day fishing trip, Goldwater said he looked forward "to serving in the interests of the way of life that you and I all love." Jack Williams beat Sam Goddard for the second time in the race for Governor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Around the Nation: How the People Voted | 11/6/1968 | See Source »

Rated a toss-up before election day, Michigan went to Humphrey without a fight. No other races here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Around the Nation: How the People Voted | 11/6/1968 | See Source »

...substantial blue-collar support, and Nixon a majority of from 100,000 to 300,000 votes, turned out to be a cliff-hanger. Wallace ran poorly, with only about ten per cent of the vote, and Humphrey support materialized in the last week of the campaign. The state eventually went to Nixon, however, by about 50,000 votes early this morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Around the Nation: How the People Voted | 11/6/1968 | See Source »

...little hard finding a job," she said, half in jest, half in anger, "and the FBI followed us around all the time. We couldn't do party work in the open." She had to testify before the House Un-American Affairs Committee, and many of her close friends went to jail...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: Charlene Mitchell | 11/5/1968 | See Source »

...Mitchell learned her economics first hand. She went to school at Herzl Junior College in Chicago's Near North Side. The College is no longer in existence; its neighborhood is now one of the city's worst ghettos...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: Charlene Mitchell | 11/5/1968 | See Source »

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