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...things didn't go that way. Because of the fierce pulling and tugging between Taft and Ike supporters, the party bigwigs couldn't agree; they had to let the conventions decide. Last week 1,813 business and professional men, farmers and flannel-shirted woodsmen gathered at Bangor to do their unusual duty...
Smith, another neutral, was making a speech before the Orono-Old Town Kiwanis Club eight miles away. Ike, she said, "is on the verge of bandwagon support that may sweep aside all opposition prior to the convening of the national convention in Chicago . . ." Her words quickly reached Bangor,filtered through the meeting rooms, and added force to a trend...
...majority of delegates who attended the conventions in Bangor probably are admirers of Robert A. Taft. One who made an impassioned speech for Ike later explained: "I'm a Taft man, but you can't get away from it: we want to win next November more than anything else. I'm not sure that Taft could...
...World Series, U.S. sport's most celebrated annual ritual, was on. From Bangor to San Francisco, men gathered around television sets, elbowed along bars, huddled beside radios. Business was suspended, politics deferred, and idle conversation shushed. A weather bureau official studied the forecasts and solemnly announced that expected conditions-grey sky, a stiff northeast wind-were good for fastball pitchers, bad for curve-ballers...
Threatening Gestures. In Bangor, Me., after a street argument in sign language, three deaf mutes were hauled off to court on a charge of "railing and brawling...