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Whatever McCarthy's feelings may have been about Robert Kennedy as a rival, he was willing to give up nine months of effort for Ted last week. Sounded out by Stephen Smith, Kennedy's brother-in-law, at the height of the Teddy boomlet, McCarthy offered to throw all his weight to the last surviving brother. "Smith said Teddy wouldn't go for it if he had to fight with me," McCarthy recounted. "I told him he wouldn't have to fight with me. I told him I was willing to give all the strength...
...Nixon boomlet has especially strong support among Southerners, as well as among Midwestern and Rocky Mountain conservatives, many of whom remain bitter over Romney's refusal to support Barry Goldwater. At the same time, party professionals of every hue are mindful of Nixon's yeoman efforts on the stump both in 1964 and 1966. Separate polls last week by the Associated Press and CBS each showed G.O.P. national committee men-or at least those who responded-preferring Nixon over Romney by 3-to-2 margins. The results, however, may be deceptive. "If you're really undecided...
Despite his boosterish manner, Shriver is a shrewd politician. In 1957 his reputation as a businessman, tireless fund raiser and efficient president of the Chicago Board of Education resulted in a brief Sargent-for-Governor boomlet. It subsided quickly, but his friends expect another to develop-say, two years from now. "I don't have any current plan to run for office," he says, "but who knows what will happen in 1968 in Illinois?" He notes nonetheless that Governor Otto Kerner is finishing his second term, and only one man has ever run successfully for three terms in Illinois...
Girls & Sewing Machines. It is Vientiane's unique charm to be riding the crest of an economic boomlet as political disaster perpetually surrounds it. Indian and Chinese shops are stocked with Scotch whisky, Benares silks, Dior perfumes and Max Factor cosmetics. But under it all lurks the perennial mood of bo peng nhan (it doesn't matter), scrofulous pi-dogs howl their way past open drains, and the sidewalks under the glittering shop windows are perilous with potholes...
...Since 1947, Russia has pumped $1,920,000,000 in aid and loans into Bulgaria's predominantly agricultural economy. As a result, Bulgarians have moved off the farms (where 70% of the 8,000,000 population lived just 20 years ago v. 50% today) and into a boomlet of industrialization. To the $838.3 million worth of vegetables, shiny apples, bursting grapes, jams, jellies, butter and milk that Bulgaria exported in 1963 was added a growing stream of batteries, machine tools, pumps, electric hoists, pharmaceuticals and steel products. One of Bulgaria's biggest hard-currency earners is the booming...