Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Allis-Chalmers, the big Wisconsin-based manufacturer, has yet to solve the nagging profit problems that have made it a tantalizing, if so far highly elusive, takeover prospect (latest suitor: Gulf & Western). In the first half of 1968, profits fell 44% from last year's first half (also poor) to a bare $4.6 million on sales of $416 million. Said the company's beleaguered boss, Robert L. Stevenson: "Steps are being taken...
With 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency, Nixon should carry 239; Humphrey, 215; Alabama's former Governor George Wallace, 17; and 67 are so close as to be uncallable. The tossups are Iowa, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Thus Pennsylvania lives up to its name as the Keystone State: without its electoral votes, Nixon would have to win virtually all of the other close states to go over the top; without its votes, Humphrey could not win, period...
...Nixon and 21 undecided. For Humphrey: Illinois (26), Michigan (21), Minnesota (10) and Ohio (26). For Nixon: Indiana (13), Kansas (7), Missouri (12), Nebraska (5), North Dakota (4) and South Dakota (4). Up in the air: Iowa (9), which is breaking out of its former conservative mold; and Wisconsin (12), which would be Nixon country if Neighbor Humphrey were not so popular there...
...Michigan, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, Maine, Minnesota, North Dakota, Alaska, Hawaii, Oregon, Iowa, West Virginia, New York, Vermont...
Slow Bow. Karr is building a movement. Next year he will be teaching at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, Boston's New England Conservatory and the University of Wisconsin. He publishes a magazine (The Bass Sound Post) and organizes annual conferences for the 1,000-member International Institute for the String Bass, which he founded and heads. He champions improvements in bass design: his own custom-made instrument has, among other features, a special thick-bellied shape for resonance and carrying power and an unusually close spacing between the strings and fingerboard for easier fingering...