Word: winninger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: So "little" Miami of Ohio defeated Indiana. We here in Oxford did not find that surprising; we expected it, for in recent years Miami has beaten Indiana twice, tied once and lost once by only five points. Also in recent years we have defeated Northwestern twice and Purdue once...
A high school graduate who built a successful trucking business, Babcock was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1960, acceded to the governorship two years later when Republican Incumbent Donald Nutter was killed in an airplane crash. Since barely winning election in his own right in 1964, Babcock has become a cocky...
However they vote for Governor Nov. 8, Florida's electorate will opt for a new political climate in their state. The choice is between Robert King High, 42, a liberal, city-oriented Democrat, and Claude Kirk, 40, a conservative upstate Republican. Neither description fits any chief executive of Florida...
Since Dwight Eisenhower's first presidential campaign, Republicanism in Florida, as in much of the Old Confederacy, has become respectable. G.O.P. national tickets carried the state in 1952, 1956 and 1960 and came within 43,000 votes of winning in 1964. The conservative Democratic establishment, backed by the pulp...
Arms or Acquiescence. That gave rise to Fulro, a Montagnard nationalist underground movement meaning "United Front for the Liberation of the Oppressed Races." In September 1964, Fulro rebels captured five Special Forces camps in the highlands and along the Cambodian border, killed 50 Vietnamese troops, and seized the radio station...