Word: lining
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...working feverishly with past election records and a slipstick) analyzed reports from far-flung observers-90 appointed assistants in key precincts all over the nation-who phoned in their findings direct. Bobby kept in touch with Democratic National Committee Chairman Henry ("Scoop") Jackson in Washington over a direct telephone line. He had another private line to Jack's house, but frequently Jack went over to the command post himself to look at the returns. When the news of the big Connecticut victory came over the wires. Jack uttered his favorite exclamation. "Fantastic!"', jumped for joy and (though...
...where Kennedy was maintaining a steady 50,000 lead: the pro-Nixon San Francisco Examiner announced that Kennedy had carried the state and the nation. Even so, the result still was not official, and Nixon was conceding nothing. Ohio's Democratic Governor Mike Di Salle, who went hook, line and sinker for Kennedy, still could not believe that Kennedy (and perhaps Di Salle) was sunk in Ohio. Kennedy rallied to take the lead in the fight for Minnesota's 11 electoral votes-enough to put him over the top according to most calculations, come what might in California...
Oregon. Succeeding her late husband, Dick Neuberger, Democrat Maurine B. Neuberger, 52, seems sure to follow his ultra-liberal line in the Senate. A phenomenal vote getter in her own right, trim, athletic Maurine spent two terms in the state legislature, is remembered with particular affection by Oregon housewives for overturning a state ban on colored margarine. Outspoken, she once advocated a woman President because "women are nicer than men, mostly...
Michigan. Massachusetts-born Patrick V. ("Senator Pat") McNamara, 66, is a labor man all the way: as onetime president of the Detroit Pipefitters Union, Democrat McNamara commands the loyalty of old line A.F.L. leaders and his ultra-liberal voting record in the Senate since 1955 has won him the plaudits of Walter Reuther's United Auto Workers. Operated on for cancer last July, he remains a back-thumping extravert, admired for his "heart" rather than his dreary speeches...
...banker, is a newcomer to active politics, although his family has long been politically prominent (Great-Great-Granduncle George Dallas was James K. Folk's Vice President). A Princeton honor graduate and a onetime diplomat in Czechoslovakia and Italy, Democrat Pell speaks four languages, advocates a down-the-line program of liberal legislation from minimum wages to the Forand bill...