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REPUBLICANS. The new importance of foreign-policy issues, stirred up by the summit collapse and the blowup in Japan, shortens the odds on Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge, 57, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Veteran of 13 years in the Senate, Lodge is a tough campaigner who managed General Eisenhower's 1952 preconvention campaign. In Gallup polls he runs third, behind Vice President Nixon and Nelson Rockefeller as the Republican choice for President. As U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations for the past seven years, he has acquired national repute as the deft negotiator who talks tough...
...queen mother of the Democratic Party broke her vow of preconvention silence to endorse a ticket headed by Adlai Stevenson. Acknowledging the commanding lead of Jack Kennedy over Stevenson and all other Democratic candidates (see box), Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, 75, nevertheless hoped that in the light of the summit blowup. Kennedy, 43, would show "unselfishness and courage" and accept the vice-presidential nomination, where he would have "the opportunity to grow and learn...
...swiftly that a candidate had to take care with every word, lest a critical statement made in one context bounce back to bruise him in another-as Jack Kennedy discovered. Still the Democratic pacemaker, Kennedy was beginning to regret a remark tossed off in Oregon right after the summit blowup, to the effect that the President might have saved the summit had he apologized to Khrushchev for the U-2 incident. Rolling wearily into Denver one night last week, Kennedy was met at the airport by a teen-aged girl with a Kennedy-for-President placard and a perplexed expression...
...nation. Widespread in the U.S. was a sense of a future, a sense of changes astir. Just beyond the threshold of a new decade, the nation looked ahead to a presidential election. And it seemed unmis- takably clear that the events of the recent past, climaxing in the summit blowup, had brought important changes, that the future would be considerably different from the past, and not necessarily worse...
Johnson cherishes a hope that the summit blowup greatly added to the political appeal of the image he has tried to create: experienced, responsible, free of zealous partisanship, the candidate of national unity. On a foray into the Northwest last week, he refused to make a formal declaration of his candidacy. Duty forbade, he explained: as an avowed candidate he would have to neglect his Senate duties. But at a political session in an Idaho Falls hotel, he leveled with an anxious admirer. "We don't want to bet on a horse that's going to stay...