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...preference for Lodge could be measured by a variety of other signs. They were so strong that Barry Goldwater instructed his aide on the scene, Steve Shadegg, to cut a few days out of his Oregon schedule and privately crossed the state off his list. Nelson Rockefeller was planning an all-out mail and telephone, radio and TV campaign in a desperate attempt to gain a foothold. Rocky's people bravely explained that the situation paralleled the primary campaign of 1948, when Harold Stassen seemed to have had the state all wrapped up only to lose a last-minute...
Even lacking total credibility, The Servant shakes the senses by wallowing in the triumph of evil over evil. But if Losey intends an all-out attack on Britain's caste system, he may have blundered into a paradox. Many a viewer will come away feeling that a world of candlelight and polished silver might be perfectly satisfactory-if only the hired help knew its place...
...captain Ed Meehan, the runners will be making an all-out attempt to unseat defending champion Villanova and give Harvard its first IC4A crown since 1927. Last year a 14-man contingent took fifth place...
Such all-out partying is a privilege of old-house inhabitants that Levittownsmen know not of. Manhattan Executive Edgar Smith has two large living rooms in his 1784 house in Morris Township, N.J., which enable adults and children to entertain separately. And in their 60-year-old stone house at Chestnut Hill, Pa., English Teacher Richard H. Tyre and his wife have been able to make an entire wing off limits for their three children (eleven, seven and two). With 24 rooms, they can afford to set aside one as a "Birthday Party Room," for "little kids with sticky fingers...
...tried to dissuade Wilson, but there was no convincing him-or Edith. By careful maneuvering, they managed to keep Wilson's name from being put before the Convention, and James Cox was nominated. When Wilson heard the news, he burst into a stream of obscenities. Cox campaigned as an all-out backer of the League, but Wilson considered the League his personal possession and would do nothing to help Cox. He was sure Harding would lose. "You have no faith in the American people," he lectured a doubter on election day. "A great moral issue is involved." Harding...