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...memos in his home in Washington's proper Georgetown district. Before him was all available evidence for a cool-headed key decision: whether to enter Wisconsin's Democratic presidential primary, thus risk his front running place by racing Rear-Runner Hubert Humphrey in his own Minnesota backyard. Kennedy decided to take the risk because he felt that a win in this pivotal primary would beat down the resistance of party professionals who control the convention. "If I take Humphrey in Wisconsin," he told a newsman, "they can't take it away from...
...born poor: his boyhood in Doland, S.Dak. (pop. 550) was as sunny and secure as any American boy could ask for. With his older brother Ralph and two younger sisters, Hubert grew up in a spacious, white frame house, with an Airedale named Rex, a rabbit hutch in the backyard, a cook in the kitchen, and a green model T Ford in the garage. Mother Christine Sannes Humphrey saw to it that her children attended the Methodist Sunday school and listened to Harry Emerson Fosdick on the radio. Father Hubert Sr. read to the kids each night, but instead...
...Brown hockey team is like a second-hand car; it works fine in its own backyard, but on the road it chokes up, stalls, and freezes over...
...children, who live on the northern edge of a new subdivision. In metropolitan Toronto, which completed Canada's first subway in 1954, European immigration has pushed population from 1.100,000 to 1.600,000 in ten years. In Vancouver (pop. 518,000 in 1949, 659,000 now), backyard swimming pools are common and nothing smaller than three-bedroom houses seems to sell...
...suffered a coronary attack two years ago, calmly lugged wet wash up from the basement while awaiting the doctor.) Friends know him as the sort of house guest who ends up painting the house before the weekend is over. When his telephone misbehaved, he spent days digging up the backyard to find a faulty line for the repair crew...