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Until the end, the rivals zigzagged across the country, concentrating on the largest states. They traveled so fast and talked so heatedly that they finally almost overshadowed the Wallace campaign, giving the race the aura of a tight, old-fashioned two-man contest. Yet the oddities that have marked the campaign's course continued to show up regularly. Humphrey, long tormented by his low marks among college students but helped by the leadership of organized labor, got a far better reception from kids at Malone College in Canton, Ohio, than among the steelworkers in western Pennsylvania. Though still...
...punch gave Harvard an invincible aura, the third goal, just a minute into the second period iced the game. The third score was powerhouse Charlie Thomas' second goal of the afternoon, this time unassisted, "After that, they must have decided we were in another league because they seemed to let down a lot," Getchell said...
...Washington, TIME Correspondent Hays Gorey found him newly self-confident, by turns introspective and expansive, self-pitying and resolutely cheery. Humphrey naturally stressed his role as the underdog, tended to blame outside factors for his difficulties, and spoke with such unwarranted optimism that his words occasionally took on an aura of unreality. Nonetheless, they mirror Humphrey's current mood...
...means of his style Wolfe does attempt to force feed a significance into what we read. For a moment the trick works, and an aura of newness shimmers about Kesey and the Pranksters. I believed myself to be in the presence of some new prophet, of a new and radical insight. But then, a moment away from the presence of the style, and the outlines of the event began to blur, the figure of Kesey himself became insubstantial. In the end the Christ-like robes Wolfe fashioned for Kesey are much too large. We are left with another acid-head...
...White Room," "Crossroads," "I'm So Glad," "Traintime," "Toad,"...there couldn't have been many in the audience who did not already know these songs inside out. But their charisma doubled. Everyone knew this was the end. Cream had announced their splitting up, and the concert had that primeval aura of the last rites. We had talked to them for over an hour at a pre-concert reception. It didn't matter. On the stage, in that blue light, they were superhuman...