Word: findley
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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Mack, a seven-term Congressman who had survived a G.O.P. gerrymander a decade ago, found his twelve new rural Illinois counties too much ground to cover, lost to freshman Republican Paul Findley. West Virginians seemed to resent all the outside help received by Bailey, an eight-termer, including stumping by Kennedy and Truman. They rallied behind underdog Arch Moore Jr., 39, to give him a 32,000-vote victory despite a 51,000 Democratic registration edge. Santangelo's East Harlem district was knocked out by the legislature, and he never had much chance of dislodging five-term Republican Paul...
...LINES. By far the greatest change will result from the redistricting required in 25 states after the 1960 census. A characteristic case is in Illinois, where seven-term Democrat Peter F. Mack Jr. and Freshman Republican Representative Paul Findley were squeezed into a new downstate district by a G.O.P. legislature that clearly hoped to sack Mack. An unpredictable liberal (he voted against foreign aid this year), Mack was given twelve rural Republican counties. Findley, a weekly newspaper publisher and a Goldwater conservative, seems ahead. But Mack is durable: when another G.O.P. legislature gerrymandered his district a decade...