Word: adlai
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Nevada (14): In a faction-split state, Harriman is edging up. The present count: six for Ave, four for Adlai, two for Symington, one-half for Lyndon Johnson, 1½ undecided...
...Mexico (16): With Senator Clinton Anderson's widely publicized help for Adlai. probably eleven for Stevenson, five for Harriman...
Vermont (6): At least 5½ for Adlai, with a stubborn one-half for Symington...
...peace, its people were more prosperous than ever, President Eisenhower was on the mend, and moderation was the spirit of the day. The voter nodded drowsily while Democratic candidates trudged busily around the country. Last week he woke up with a start to discover that Adlai Stevenson held a runaway lead for the Democratic nomination. And next week even the most somnolent of the U.S.'s 120 million televiewers will know full well that the biggest and boomingest and showiest convention extravaganza in the history of national politics is at hand...
...Truman (who has permitted Harriman's aides to use his name in their approaches to delegates). On Harriman's heels was Truman's Interior Secretary Oscar Chapman, a Stevenson leader, arriving for a weekend in Independence; he felt confident that Truman would not try to block Adlai. Two days later Tennessee's Governor Frank Clement, the convention keynoter who-at 36-has hopes for the vice-presidential nomination, checked into Kansas City. Truman walked over to Clement's Muehlebach Hotel suite, explaining: "I wanted to take an hour or so so we can talk...