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Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, 185 votes; Attorney General Bobby Kennedy, 166; U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, 75; New York City Mayor Robert Wagner, 47; Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver, 43; California's Governor Pat Brown, 37; Minnesota's Senator Eugene McCarthy, 28; Connecticut's Senator Abraham Ribicoff, 24; Assistant Secretary of Commerce Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., 21; and Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington...
Perhaps Dallas right-wingers made their biggest splashes with their demonstrations against the Vice-Presidential nominee, Lyndon Johnson, in 1960, and U. N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson a month before President Kennedy's assassination. Led by Congressman Alger, a crowd of 50 pickets met candidate Johnson in the lobby of a Dallas hotel. Several demonstraters jostled both him and Lady Bird, but the nominee declined police aid declaring, "the day hasn't come when me and my Lady can't walk through a Dallas hotel." More recently Ambassador Stevenson confronted Dallas' wild wooly right after a U. N. Day speech...
...JERRY LEWIS SHOW (ABC, 9:30-11:30 p.m.). Tonight's guests are Singer Pearl Bailey and U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson...
This was more like it. Wherever they went-in San Antonio, Houston and Fort Worth-the crowds were large, warm, and plainly in love with Jackie. Kennedy had been warned that Texas was enemy territory, indeed, Adlai Stevenson, who had been roughed up by a Texas crowd only last month, advised Kennedy Aide Arthur Schlesinger Jr. that some Dallasites had voiced concern over the President's safety. Now, with such fears apparently unrealized, President Kennedy was exuberant...
Whatever he had read, Khari R. Baghdelleh had obviously not understood it. And no reasonable man would suspect the U.S. of joining South Africa in any international hanky-panky. Still, rumors about atomic weaponry have a habit of swelling rapidly into dangerous controversies. U.S. Representative to the U.N. Adlai Stevenson wasted no time in pointing out that the only scientific experiment now scheduled to involve both the U.S. and South Africa has nothing to do with bombs: it will be a delicate and determined effort to detect some elusive particles of matter...