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McCarthy must also realize that candidates who do manage to survive Wisconsin often die at the national conventions. This "Wisconsin whammy" has twice befallen Estes Kefauver, the choice of state Democrats in 1952 and '56, who lost the nomination both years to Adlai Stevenson...
...seemed like the end of the line. Suddenly, all the legal breaks went McChan's way. Out went his indictment, because Maryland's top court voided a requirement that grand jurors-including the grand jurors that indicted him-affirm belief in God. The same fate has befallen several hundred other indictments; in many cases the result has been a new indictment and a retrial. But a retrial of McChan was out, because the Supreme Court's new confession rules barred the key evidence against him. To be sure, McChan was also accused of leading a prison riot...
...people love each other," Hemingway once wrote, "there can be no happy end to it," meaning one must die before the other. "Being a widow is no picnic," says Betty Bacall, "you lose your place," a shattering experience that has befallen 1,900,000 women in the 40-to-60 age group. "I had to go on because of my children, and I had to because of my own sense of survival. Bogey's belief always was that if one mourns too long, one mourns for oneself rather than for the one who's gone. Life...
Under specific fire from Day were President Johnson and "his supposedly liberal" administration. Terming the Civil Rights and Poverty Bills, "crumbs to the alienated," Day warned that Johnson's "broad party of consensus" threatens the civil rights movement with the same failure by inclusion which he feels has befallen American labor...
Heekey (5-3-2)--The icers have so far had the fallest schedule of any of the Yardling squads. Their biggest weakness is defense, as witnessed by the close 3-6 victory over New Prep last Saturday. Despite this flaw, only two total disasters have befallen the team, a 7-3 rout by B.C. and an 3-3 massacre by B.U. The squad's only other loss, to Mxeter, 5-4, came in overtime...