Word: exception
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Michigan's Governor G. Mennen Williams, Kennedy-leaning favorite son of his state's 51-vote Democratic delegation, predicted Michigan would go heavily next November for any Democrat except Lyndon Johnson. Johnson, said Williams, "might" carry Michigan, but the party "stands for a more liberal and progressive policy than he represents." A Detroit News poll gave Kennedy more votes than all other Democrats combined (63%), put Stevenson second...
...untended. There is a problem but no crisis. U.S. citizens, young and old alike, generally receive the best health care in the world. A University of Chicago team recently polled 2,700 people over 65; only 2% claimed that poverty prevented them from getting medical care. All states except ten have programs of medical relief for the aged subsidized by matching funds from Washington, and almost every large county in the land has built a hospital that accommodates the poor. County hospitals vary in quality, and state relief varies in quantity-but some of it is generous. Miami...
...states with harder-than-average water, all but Florida and Kentucky are north or west of the Ohio River. And in these 25, except Indiana and Illinois, death rates from heart-artery disease are below the national average. In more than two-thirds of the soft-water states (east or south of the Ohio, plus Louisiana, Arkansas, Oregon and Washington-see map), the rates were above average...
Road to Recovery. As company losses mounted, Elgin finally had no choice except to follow Moorman's advice. Employees agreed to work for 15% less on the new line. Breakthroughs in automated production methods, e.g., a drilling and cutting machine that performs in less than one hour what used to take four workers seven or eight weeks to do, helped to trim costs. By last June the first new Sportsman and Starlite watches, priced at $19.95 to $29.95, were on the market. They sold well-400,000 by year...
...sales system that seems designed to discourage all but the most determined customers, the Texas Field Guide has sold more than 6,000 copies-more than some bestselling novels. The author: Roger Tory Peterson, 51, the U.S.'s top birdman, whose wrinkle-ringed blue eyes (no spectacles except for close work) can distinguish between a harlequin duck and a common scoter half a mile away...