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Ideological leader of the new Republican group was popular Department Store Owner Barry Goldwater, a 40-year-old in 1949 when he led a Good Government reform slate to take over a rickety Phoenix city government. Three years later he upset Senate Majority Leader Ernest McFarland in a Senate race, beat him again in 1958. Kansas-born John Rhodes, who learned about Phoenix as a World War II pilot, became in 1952 the first Republican to win an Arizona seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. By 1958, Republican Paul Fannin, backed by such businesslike young Republicans as Dave Murdock...
...vote, because the national committeeman (pro-Humphrey) and committeewoman (pro-Kennedy) automatically get half a vote apiece. Each of the ten congressional districts gets two full votes, for a total of 20; the winner of the statewide popular vote gets the ten votes of the delegate-at-large slate...
After two crushing defeats at the hands of Columbia and Cornel, the varsity possesses an 0-2 Ivy record, and its overall slate has dwindled to 6-4. Tonight the Crimson must face the League leader and defending champion, Dartmouth, and the powerful Big Green will have the advantage of playing on its home floor...
...Right, Dave. We stand at the blackboard of the Sixties with a clean slate, so to speak. Today is a divisional point, a change of trains, a time of stock-taking, of personal inventory, of renascent hope, of rededication, of crossing over, of escape from tedium...
Ultimate Compliment. Fitting smoothly into first grade at Garden Hills school, which has eleven other blind students, Pamela found few differences. A hand-picked "resource teacher" taught her to read Braille and use a Braille writer-a six-key device that works like an oldtime stylus and slate. The blind students carry the writers to class, take tests with them, even do long-division problems with them...