Good morning, Whitewater.

Thursday brings morning clouds, but afternoon sunshine, to the Whippet City.  We’ll have a high of sixty-eight.  Sunrise is 6:34 and sunset 4:41, for 10h 07m 05s of daytime.  The moon is a waning crescent with 31.2% of the its visible disk illuminated.

On this day in 1968, Richard Nixon is elected president of the United States.  The next day, the New York Times reported his victory:

Nixon Wins By A Thin Margin, Pleads For Reunited Nation

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Elector Vote 287

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Lead in Popular Tally May Be Smaller Than Kennedy’s in ’60

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Nixon Wins Presidency by Margin Probably Smaller Than That of Kennedy in ’60

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WALLACE’S EFFECT HARD TO PIN POINT

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Alabamian Believed to Have Helped Humphrey in Some States, Nixon in Others

By MAX FRANKEL

Richard Milhous Nixon emerged the victor yesterday in one of the closest and most tumultuous Presidential campaigns in history and set himself the task of reuniting the nation.

Elected over Hubert H. Humphrey by the barest of margins–only four one-hundredths of a percentage point in the popular vote–and confronted by a Congress in control of the Democrats, the President-elect said it “will be the great objective of this Administration at the outset to bring the American people together.”

He pledged, as the 37th President, to form “an open Administration, open to new ideas, open to men and women of both parties, open to critics as well as those who support us” so as to bridge the gap between the generations and the races.

On this day in 1912, Wisconsin men reject giving Wisconsin women the right to vote:

1912 – Women’s Suffrage Referendum

On this date Wisconsin voters (all male) considered a proposal to allow women to vote. When the referendum was over, Wisconsin men voted women’s suffrage down by a margin of 63 to 37 percent. The referendum’s defeat could be traced to multiple causes, but the two most widely cited reasons were schisms within the women’s movement itself and a perceived link between suffragists and temperance that antagonized many German American voters. Although women were granted the vote in 1920 by the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Wisconsin’s own constitution continued to define voters as male until 1934. [Source: Turning Points in Wisconsin History]

Here’s the Thursday game in this week’s Puzzability series, All is Lost:

This Week’s Game — November 2-6

All Is Lost

This is a week of all or nothing. For each day, we started with a word containing the letter chunk ALL and removed that chunk to get a new word or phrase. The answer phrase, described by each day’s clue, is the longer ALL word followed by the shorter word.

Example:

Young, inexperienced Holstein

Answer:

Callow cow

What to Submit:

Submit the two-word phrase, with the longer one first (as “Callow cow” in the example), for your answer.

Thursday, November 5

Tool for sweeping up after Cinderella and the other guests have left

Good morning, Whitewater.

Our midweek in town will be cloudy in the morning, but sunny in the afternoon, with a daytime high of sixty-eight. Sunrise is 6:33 and sunset 4:43, for 10h 09m 33s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 40.1% of its visible disk illuminated.

Weird Al, one of America’s most perceptive artists, once again proves worthy of that praise, with his depiction of Every Post-Game Press Conference:

On this day in 1979, fanatical students storm the United States embassy in Tehran:

Student followers of the Ayatollah Khomeini send shock waves across America when they storm the U.S. embassy in Tehran. The radical Islamic fundamentalists took 90 hostages. The students were enraged that the deposed Shah had been allowed to enter the United States for medical treatment and they threatened to murder hostages if any rescue was attempted. Days later, Iran’s provincial leader resigned, and the Ayatollah Khomeini, the leader of Iran’s fundamentalist revolutionaries, took full control of the country—and the fate of the hostages.

Two weeks after the storming of the embassy, the Ayatollah began to release all non-U.S. captives, and all female and minority Americans, citing these groups as among the people oppressed by the United States government. The remaining 52 captives were left at the mercy of the Ayatollah for the next 14 months.

President Jimmy Carter was unable to diplomatically resolve the crisis, and on April 24, 1980, he ordered a disastrous rescue mission in which eight U.S. military personnel were killed and no hostages rescued. Three months later, the former shah died of cancer in Egypt, but the crisis continued. In November 1980, Carter lost the presidential election to Republican Ronald Reagan. Soon after, with the assistance of Algerian intermediaries, successful negotiations finally began between the United States and Iran.

On January 20, 1981—the day of Reagan’s inauguration—the United States freed almost $3 billion in frozen Iranian assets and promised $5 billion more in financial aid. Minutes after Reagan was sworn in, the hostages flew out of Iran on an Algerian airliner, ending their 444-day ordeal. The next day, Jimmy Carter flew to West Germany to greet them on their way home.

November 4, 1847 marked a first for Beloit College:

1847 – First Class at Beloit College

On this date the first class of Beloit College assembled. [Source: History Just Ahead: A Guide to Wisconsin’s Historical Markers edited by Sarah Davis McBride]

Here’s the midweek puzzle from Puzzability:

This Week’s Game — November 2-6

All Is Lost

This is a week of all or nothing. For each day, we started with a word containing the letter chunk ALL and removed that chunk to get a new word or phrase. The answer phrase, described by each day’s clue, is the longer ALL word followed by the shorter word.

Example:

Young, inexperienced Holstein

Answer:

Callow cow

What to Submit:

Submit the two-word phrase, with the longer one first (as “Callow cow” in the example), for your answer.

Wednesday, November 4

Stall for getting clean that’s not as deep as the next one

Good morning, Whitewater.

Tuesday in town will be sunny and warm, with a high of seventy. Sunrise is 6:32 and sunset 4:44, for 10h 12m 03s of daytime. The moon is in its third quarter, with 49.7% of its visible disk illuminated.

Whitewater’s Zoning Code Committee meets at 6 PM, and Common Council at 6:30 PM.

On this day in 1903, a photographer of American life, notably during the Great Depression, is born:

Walker Evans (November 3, 1903 – April 10, 1975) was an American photographer best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) documenting the effects of the Great Depression. Much of Evans’s work from the FSA period uses the large-format, 8×10-inch camera. He said that his goal as a photographer was to make pictures that are “literate, authoritative, transcendent”.^[1] Many of his works are in the permanent collections of museums and have been the subject of retrospectives at such institutions as The Metropolitan Museum of Art or George Eastman House.^[2]

On this day in 1804, it’s millions of acres for a thousand dollars per year :

1804 – Treaty at St. Louis

On this date Fox and Sauk negotiators in St. Louis traded 50 million acres of land in southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois for an annuity of $1,000. The treaty allowed the tribes to remain on the land until it was sold to white settlers. However, Chief Black Hawk and others believed that the 1804 negotiators had no authority to speak for their nation, so the treaty was invalid. U.S. authorities, on the other hand, considered it binding and used it justify the Black Hawk War that occurred in the spring and summer of 1832. [Source: Along the Black Hawk Trail by William F. Stark, p. 32-33]

Here’s the Tuesday game from Puzzability:

This Week’s Game — November 2-6

All Is Lost

This is a week of all or nothing. For each day, we started with a word containing the letter chunk ALL and removed that chunk to get a new word or phrase. The answer phrase, described by each day’s clue, is the longer ALL word followed by the shorter word.

Example:

Young, inexperienced Holstein

Answer:

Callow cow

What to Submit:

Submit the two-word phrase, with the longer one first (as “Callow cow” in the example), for your answer.

Tuesday, November 3

Automated computer system for counting every vote

Good morning, Whitewater.

Monday will be sunny with a high of seventy. Sunrise is 6:31 and sunset is 4:45, for 10h 14m 34s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 59.9% of its visible disk illuminated.

There will be a Friends of the Effigy Mounds meeting at 6:30 PM.

The Hughes H-4 Hercules (also known as the “Spruce Goose“; registration NX37602) is a prototype heavy strategic airlift military transport aircraftdesigned and built by the Hughes Aircraft Company. Intended as a transatlantic flight transport for use during World War II, it was not completed in time to be used in the war. The aircraft made only one brief flight on November 2, 1947, and the project never advanced beyond the single example produced. Built from wood because of wartime restrictions on the use of aluminium and concerns about weight, it was nicknamed by critics the “Spruce Goose”, although it was made almost entirely of birch.^[1][2] The Hercules is the largest flying boat ever built and has the largest wingspan of any aircraft in history.^[3] It is on display, and remains in good condition at the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, United States.^[4]

Puzzability begins a new series for the week, entitled, ominously, All Is Lost:

This Week’s Game — November 2-6

All Is Lost

This is a week of all or nothing. For each day, we started with a word containing the letter chunk ALL and removed that chunk to get a new word or phrase. The answer phrase, described by each day’s clue, is the longer ALL word followed by the shorter word.

Example:

Young, inexperienced Holstein

Answer:

Callow cow

What to Submit:

Submit the two-word phrase, with the longer one first (as “Callow cow” in the example), for your answer.

Monday, November 2

Rocky star’s rock