Word: midwest
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...some areas, a quicker solution is being used: the conversion of old hotels. Oldsters like them because they are conveniently near bustling business districts. Two old hotel chains-the MacArthur with 15 hotels, and the Weaver with 21-have united to form a chain throughout the South and the Midwest, called Senior Citizens Hotels Inc. They are converting several floors of each hotel for retirement living. There is a recreation room and kitchen, ramps instead of stairways where possible. Rents range from $35 a month for a room without meals to $125 for a bath and three meals, supervised...
Goldwater can count many allies, including G.O.P. state and county chairmen across the conservative South, the Southwest, and the Midwest from the Mississippi to the Rockies. Though he is weaker in the big-vote industrial states, his supporters make up in zeal for whatever they lack in numbers. During the campaign Goldwater became one of the G.O.P.'s most sought-after speakers, and many congressional candidates billed themselves as Goldwater Republicans. Most of the 23 new G.O.P. Congressmen are conservatives-a fact that will help Goldwater. "If the Southern Democrats stay in coalition with us," he says...
...farm states of the Midwest and beyond reverted to Republican type-almost as though Ezra Taft Benson had never existed. In Kansas and Iowa, Nixon not only won but carried along Republican state candidates to victories over favored Democrats. In the Far West Nixon also did nicely-except in crucial California...
...doubt still gnawed at top Democrats in Washington. "Scoop" Jackson said the race was narrowing. The Midwest held the balance of power, and the balance was seesawing. Wisconsin fell to Nixon, as the Democrats' disappointingly small turnout in Milwaukee failed to overcome the outstate G.O.P. avalanche. Kennedy's Illinois lead dwindled further. Minnesota turned into a no man's state. Kennedy was still in front by 14% in Michigan, but Democrats declined to proclaim victory until the final third of the vote was counted...
Wyoming, Washington. California, the Midwest and Alaska-not with too much hope of winning Alaska's three electoral votes, but to keep his acceptance-speech promise to campaign in all 50 states. In Wyoming, to keep this promise, the pilot of his chartered Boeing 707 had to land in a snowstorm. Nixon, buoyed by Ike's support, told-his audiences that he felt a "tide"' running in his direction, promised "one of the greatest victories in terms of electoral votes in the history of America.'' Increasing the cutting edge of his adjectives, he punched hard...