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OVER the last six weeks. Massachusetts' Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy has traveled more than 10,000 miles in his preliminary prospecting for the 1960 Democratic nomination for President of the U.S. TIME Washington Bureau Correspondent Marshall Berger accompanied Kennedy on key trips to the South and Midwest, which made some of the year's most remarkable political news. Almost everywhere else that Kennedy went, there was a TIME correspondent at his elbow. Says Kennedy: "It got so that whenever I got off a plane and didn't immediately see a TIME man near...
...sometime union organizer and former Communist who was a commissar with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War. "I always liked the organizing field," Zakman explained simply, although he admitted he "wasn't very successful at it." One day in 1950 Zakman approached one Sam Berger, then manager of an International Ladies Garment Workers Union local in New York, asked Berger to help him pick up a charter for a union. 'I had a family to support," said Zakman. "Here was a chance to organize a trade [i.e., cab drivers] that never had been organized...
...Berger offered a diagnosis: many of the nation's athletes, from milers to football pros to schoolboy second basemen, are gobbling "pep pills" containing stimulating, habit-forming drugs like amphetamine, commonly known as "dexies" or "bennies." Prodded by Berger, the A.M.A. voted to investigate the "indiscriminate use of these agents, particularly in relation to athletic programs...
...week's end, while man plodded resolutely ahead with plans to fly to the moon, the A.M.A. set up a press conference for Dr. Berger to meet reporters anxious to ask for documentation of his charges. He did not show up. later firmly turned away all such queries. Meanwhile, the American College of Sports Medicine decided to look into the situation...
After the first angry blast at Dr. Berger's claims, a handful of sports figures-a few American pro footballers, a former Olympic swimmer from Australia, a Canadian team physician-frankly admitted that the doctor had a point. When he was playing for the Detroit Lions, recalled Quarterback Tom Dublinski, who later switched to the Toronto Argonauts, he once took a pill that pepped him up too much. "It hopped me up to high heaven," said Dublinski with a shudder. "That's no good-a quarterback has to be steady...