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...obviously low wages but allowed no boondoggles. Another campaign.: a balanced budget. Increases are scheduled for the army, police, health and education, but by dumping Uruguay's oldtime system of wasteful patronage and enacting its first national income tax, Nardone and Haedo see annual expenditures of $129 million offset by receipts of $131 million...
What happened, of course, was that the Boston returns came in first, and though they gave the Democrats a lead, the margin was not enough to offset the expected Republican vote from the western part of the state. In Boston, which Sen. Kennedy carried, 221,152 to 74,014, Thomas J. O'Connor could manage only a 150, 305-to-116,854 lead over Saltonstall and Ward was ahead of Volpe by only...
This represents an unfortunate defeat for Kennedy because O'Connor's vote could have been very important in the 87th Congress. In order to carry through his forward-looking program, the new President will need enough liberal votes, both Democrat and Republican, to offset the recalcitrant coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats. And unhappily, O'Connor was not the only Kennedy supporter beaten in this strange national election...
North Carolina (14): The Democrats, boasting their biggest and best organization in any presidential campaign, are working hard to counter anti-Catholic feeling and to offset Republicans in the booming Piedmont cities and in the western mountain counties. The Democrats have sent in Harry Truman to talk common sense to his fellow Baptists, have shown the Kennedy Houston film three times. A sitdown by old-line Democrats could throw it to Nixon. UNPREDICTABLE...
Newsmen in other areas of the state, however, discount the predictions of victory issued by their Northern colleagues. They claim that Democratic strength in Hudson and Mercer will be offset by the Republican vote in Bergen and Essex, a county that includes heavily-Negro Newark, and wealthy suburbia...