Word: majority
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There was no lack of words to choose from. While the editors had available all the reports of major press services and the din of TV and radio, the heart of the reporting came from 124 TIME correspondents who spent the night at key posts in all 50 states-and with each of the presidential and vice-presidential candidates until the hour of decision. Their assignment from Chief of Correspondents Richard Clurman: "Good, live reporting, not only analyses and explanations but eye-and-ear, sights-and-sounds reporting as well...
...City Trend. One by one, the U.S.'s major cities gave Kennedy votes enough to assure victory in key states. Time after time, Richard Nixon inched back in nonmetropolitan areas-but rarely by enough. By pre-election estimates, Philadelphia had to go to Kennedy by at least 200,000 for him to win in Pennsylvania; the city went by 326,000. Although Nixon won 52 of Pennsylvania's 67 counties, the state went down the drain for the Republicans. Kennedy carried New York City with 63% of the vote, far more than enough to take New York State...
...religious minorities once again voted heavily Democratic. It was also in the cities that Kennedy's personality caught on most decisively. There were strong indications that Eisenhower, had he started campaigning three weeks before Election Day, might have stemmed the tide: his Cleveland appearance was almost certainly a major factor in saving Ohio for Nixon...
...past four years as attorney general under his election victim, Democratic Governor George Docking. Liberal by Kansas G.O.P. standards (he favors repeal of the state's right-to-work laws), Anderson had to beat out his party's choice for the nomination in a primary. Major campaign promise: more cash for state schools...
...major problem facing the President-elect, Pell stated, is the eventual admission of Red China to the United Nations or the fall...