Heavy vote turnout and 1948 echoes in campaign notes
Reports on voter turnout in key states, McGovern and Nixon polling leads, and minor party candidates influencing the race. Alf Landon’s 1936 example is cited as a caution, while Agnew and Shriver vote in Maryland. Republicans seek Senate gains but face stiff GOP challenges and tight races across multiple states.
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Topeka
Kan
Alf Landon
Franklin D. Roosevelt
McGovern
Nixon
John G. Schmutz
Louis Fisher
Socialist Labor
Linda Jenness
Socialist Workers
Benjamin Spock
People’s
E. Harold Munch
Prohibition
Gus Hall
Gabriel Green
Universal Party
John V. Mahalchik
America First Party
John Rospers
Spiro T. Agnew
Sargent Shriver
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Fletcher Thompson
Sam Nunn
Georgia
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Nick Galifionakis
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John H. Chafee
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Claiborne Pell
Rhode Island
Wesley Powell
Thomas J. McIntyre
New Hampshire
Peter V. Domenici
Jack Daniels
New Mexico
Dewey Bartlett
Ed Edmundson
Oklahoma
William Scott
William B. Spong
Virginia
Caleb Boges
Joseph R. Biden
Delaware
James A. McClure
William EB
Bud’ Davis
Idaho
Robert P. Griffin
Frank J. Kelley
Michigan
Margaret Chase Smith
Wiliam D. Hathaway
Maine
Jack Miller
Richard Clark
Iowa
John G. Tower
Barefoot Sanders
Texas
Third $15 million F111 jet lost over North Vietnam
UPI reports the US Command confirmed the loss of a swing wing F111 during a Penetration mission over North Vietnam. Crews were listed as missing. The craft, based at Takhif, Thailand, features radar guidance and low altitude performance to evade radar.
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Flt
Takhif
Thailand
Shirley Temple UK after cancer surgery and politics
The article recalls Shirley Temple at age 12 after cancer surgery and her later life in California politics. It notes her film fame in Heidi and Little Miss Marker, and her 1967 run in California's Lith district, losing a special primary to McChukey. It mentions her marriage to the PG&E heir and hints she might return to Washington if health allows.
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Shirley Temple
Heidi
Miss Marker
Voter turnout set to break records in Los Angeles County
Long Beach and Los Angeles voters faced a high turnout as 87.5 percent is forecast in LA County with a record 3,613,450 eligible voters. Ballot measures include Prop 14 tax limits Prop 15 wage clause Prop 17 death penalty Prop 18 anti obscenity Prop 2 coastline rules Prop 22 anti busing and farm labor reforms. Also contested races for Congress Long Beach supervisor seat and state legislature amid a crowded election day.
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James Allison
Los Angeles
Lyndon Johnson
Barry Goldwater
Los Angeles County
Congress
State Assembly
State Senate
Joseph P. Busch Jr
Vincent T. Bugliast
Charles Manon
Long Beach
James Hayes
Marvin Braude
Hayes
Burton Chace
California State Employes Association
California
Afl-Cio
United Farm Workers Union
Craig Hosmer
John S. Donohue
Dennds Murray
James M. Sutton Jr
Joseph M. Kenrick
Mike Cullen
Wilbur R. Richardson
Orange County
Nixon Votes as nation awaits results at Concordia school
President Nixon cast his ballot as polls opened amid a calm, confident mood. He and Mrs. Nixon returned to Washington for a White House family dinner and hopes of a victory celebration, while campaign aides briefed him on early returns. Nixon urged high turnout and emphasized peace through strength, noting his cross country schedule and Kissinger Ehrlichman talks.
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Nixon
Mary Stamp
Nixons
Concordia School
White House
Washington
Legter
Vietnam
Henry Kissinger
Domestic
John Ehrlichman
McGovern campaigns in South Dakota on eve of vote
Senator George McGovern, campaigning across South Dakota, shares a message of caring and unity, aiming to highlight positive values in the nation. He voted at Mitchell’s Congregational Church and planned stops at Dakota Wesleyan University, a Sioux Falls country club reception, and election night events at the Holiday Inn and Sioux Falls Coliseum.
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McGovern
Nixon
Vietnam
Mitchell
Dakota Wesleyan University
Sioux Falls
McGovern holds Long Beach stop in bid for votes
Final plea by Senator McGovern in Long Beach frames a campaign push across New York Philadelphia Wichita as he targets undecided voters. He attacks Nixon on peace, the Older Americans Act and Veterans Hospital Act, urging support for the unemployed and children while rallying with Cranston and Tunney. Celebrities Candice Bergen and TV figure Dennis Weaver attend.
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Philadelphia
Wichita
McGovern
Long Beach
Sioux Falls
Nixon
Dennis Weaver
Candice Bergen
Sens
Crangton
John V. Tunney
Senate
George Moscone
Mervyn Dymally
Assembly
Willie Brown
Funny ears may signal bad kidneys in children
In Cleveland, a University of Texas urologist said ears and kidneys develop at the same embryo stages. He noted that "funny-looking" ears may indicate kidney abnormalities, a finding presented to urologists in Ohio.
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Cleveland
Ohio
University of Texas
Paul C. Peters
Teeting
Devel
Record vote sets all time high in Orange County turnout
The county registered a near one hundred thousand voters as men and women queued at 7 am openings before work. Officials reported lines at opening. Most precincts have 450 to 650 voters. Registrar David Hitchcock said about a dozen precincts ordered extra voting booths.
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Orange County
Registrar of
David G. Hitchcock
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