Word: adlai
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...like the cover portrait of Adlai-kind of blurry and dreamy-eyed like what he stands...
...Adlai Stevenson's Libertyville Express rolled onto the main line for Chicago last week, and headed down the tracks with throttle widened and lights blinking green ahead as far as the eye could see. Only an earth-shaking derailment could keep Stevenson from rolling right into the nomination next week-probably on the first ballot...
Things began to go Adlai's way right after Estes Kefauver retired from the presidential race and attached his little red caboose to the end of Stevenson's impressive string of delegate cars (including a few sleepers). After canvassing the 54 delegations bound for the convention (see box), TIME correspondents reported results at week's end that added up to this first-ballot total (with 686½ needed to nominate...
...Adlai Stevenson: 666½ Averell Harriman: 178 Favorite Sons & Others: 357½ Fence Sitters...
...Adlai Could . . . Hammering home its point, the Bailey paper says that in 1952 Catholic voters "went approximately one out of two for the Republican candidate, whereas in 1948 they had gone two out of three for the Democratic nominee . . . Approximately 30% of these Catholics for Eisenhower were 'shifters'-that is, even on the basis of 1948, when the Catholic vote was already slipping away from the Democrats (the Republicans carried New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Michigan and Maryland), they would have been expected to vote Democratic in 1952. These shifters-whom we shall call 'normally Democratic...