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Odds-On Bet. Who could that be? Hardly anybody, but logic favors a running mate from the Midwest, since that is the battleground which may be crucial for the Democrats in the coming campaign. The leading contender from that region is Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey. Another possibility is Senator Eugene McCarthy, also from Minnesota, and a Catholic...
...drew some 175,000 people to the streets of Worcester, Mass., en route to another commencement address at Holy Cross College. There, he expressed again his lofty hopes for "the Great Society." Even if the cold war should end, Johnson warned, the world would find itself "on a new battleground as filled with danger and fraught with difficulty as any ever faced by man." The fight then, he said, would be "to build a great world society-a place where every man can find a life free from hunger and disease-a life offering the chance to seek spiritual fulfillment...
...avoid pedagogy, Ortman pierces Botticelli's elegant illusion. He analyzes the exacting geometry which the Renaissance artist imposed on his curvy allegory of the feverish season of love, spotlighting by colored panels the gestures that narrate the painting. As on the chessboard, where the rational, 64-square battleground can scarcely contain the emotional knight, Ortman does not let the truth of his analysis overwhelm beauty...
...charitable foundation in 1882, the society today is a kind of spiritual commando unit, experimenting with new tactics of evangelism on the battleground of the Inner City. It has taken over, integrated and kept alive a dozen Protestant churches that threatened to close up shop when whites-only neighborhoods turned into Negro slums. Its West Side Christian Parish consists of three storefront chapels in a Negro district, one run by a dozen laymen and a minister who live together in shared poverty on a welfare-scale budget. Another society-sponsored church cheerfully operates out of a former...
...machine. P. & G. muscled All out of the machines by offering manufacturers free TV plugs if they switched to giving away its low-suds Dash or high-suds Tide instead. When a new "active" All formula successfully slowed the upward pace of Dash, P. & G. moved to a new battleground by bringing out a low-suds detergent in tablet form called Salvo, backed by a $26 million ad campaign. Lever counterattacked with a tablet, Vim, but Dash and Salvo now have half the low-suds business...