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Southern Help. Just as Kennedy won where he had to win in the big industrial states, so he won where he had to win in the South and Southwest. As expected, he lost Florida, Virginia and Oklahoma; in races figured beforehand as tossups, he also lost Kentucky and Tennessee. But, despite the win of an independent electors' ticket in Mississippi, he handily carried Texas and South Carolina, which had been predicted for Nixon. During the campaign, many observers had thought-and said-that Republican Henry Cabot Lodge was a positive asset to his ticket while Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson...
...brief ceremony beforehand ("Ted wanted it this way," said master of ceremonies Curt Gowdy), Williams restlessly toed the turf before him, and gased out to the left field stands while Boston dignitaries praised...
...family Convair to Detroit, picked up ten prominent Negroes, airlifted them to a conference at Kennedy's Georgetown home in Washington. It was, as one of the Negroes reported later, a "real red-carpet" welcome. "We had brunch on the patio, and there was a subtle punch beforehand-I thought there was gin in there, but I heard it was cognac. There was chicken and some fancy kind of eggs, and there were whites and Negroes waiting on us. Afterward, that man must have given away $100 worth of cigars from some foreign country. Mrs. Kennedy was there...
...last week flew to Brussels to dicker with Belgium's Minister of the Congo and to call on young King Baudouin, who is scheduled to open the Congo's first Parliament at the end of the month, provided the country does not explode into bloody civil war beforehand. Watching the events in Brussels with rising anger, choleric Patrice Lumumba growled: "The Belgians prefer to give power to stooges and retain power for themselves in the Congo. Without my party, the government will not last two months...
...both the U.S. and Britain some fears were expressed that the U.S., by risking the U-2 flight "at this time," had risked prospects for "agreements" at the summit. But if the shooting down of the U-2 dimmed summit prospects, they could not have been very bright beforehand...