Word: smith
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Margaret Chase Smith, in the nation's first all-women election, won back her Senate seat as Nixon held a 3-2 margin in Maine. Republican Gov. John H. Reed returned to the State House by the same lead...
Solid for Kennedy: Barring a huge anti-Catholic vote, Kennedy will win the deepest sections of the Deep South that held loyally to Al Smith in 1928 and Adlai Stevenson in 1956 (Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi). Electoral votes: KENNEDY...
Like Casey. In Manhattan, Kennedy had another audience which, somewhat surprisingly, was not on his side. When he turned up for the annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner at the Waldorf (a politician's command performance) in black tie and found Nixon in white tie and tails, he seemed so comfortable that Nixon was moved to comment that whichever man won the election would outlaw the agony of full dress. In his speech, Kennedy produced some spirited quips. Only the host, Francis Cardinal Spellman, he said, could have brought together at the same banquet table two political leaders...
...Getzels-Jackson pictures showed a man in an airplane seat. Biting his pencil thoughtfully, a high-IQ teenager jotted down a conventional description of "Mr. Smith" returning "from a successful business trip" and "thinking about his wonderful family and how glad he will be to see them again." To a creative classmate, the situation looked very different. "This man," he wrote, "is flying back from Reno where he has just won a divorce from his wife. He couldn't stand to live with her any more because she wore so much cold cream on her face at night that...
...sole end and purpose of all production," said Economist Adam Smith, is the consumer. Last week U.S. business, watching the consumer like a hopeful but apprehensive parent, might have varied Adam Smith's dictum to read that the U.S. consumer is the master key to what will happen to production-and how much will be sold-in the months ahead. What business saw was a consumer growing steadily more cautious about his purchases, but still buying at a rate that is helping to steady the economy...