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...With a bumper crop almost in, Nikita Khrushchev's successors, Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksei Kosygin, could afford the gesture. "Well," said one Russian woman, "I guess this shows that -what's his name?-oh yes, Kosygin -is all right." The Explainers. Khrushchev's sudden ouster has seemingly stirred little emotion among the Russian people. But shock and indignation have mounted in Communist parties abroad, and the task of soothing the foreign comrades left Russia's new B. & K. team red-eyed with fatigue. Into Moscow swept platoon after platoon of insistent commissars-French, Italian, Austrian, Danish...
...accident that John F. Kennedy appointed more federal judges than any other President. For years, congressional Democrats had refused to expand the overworked federal bench-saving for a Democratic Administration a bumper crop of 73 judicial nominations...
...apparently people with similar tastes in Presidential candidates also have similar tastes in motor vehicles. Four-fifths of the cars with Johnson bumper stickers were of a shiny, primary red, white or blue, with powder blue also very popular...
...steel colored Volkswagens from Massachusetts bore just one Goldwater tag. But the rest each had about six stickers pasted around the car, the "Au H2O in '64" sometimes repeated several times. Many Goldwater stickers showed signs of having been ripped off, which none of the Johnson bumper stickers...
...safe bet that the LBJ bumper sticker people are not among the Extremists for Johnson who scratch at other people's cars. Their stickers are solitary, scrupulously neat, and say something restrained, such as "All the Way it LBJ" or "Scientists and Engineers for Johnson and Humphrey." Only two cars of the 38 bore tags revealing their other affiliations; only one mentioned any political candidate besides the big boy. Only two cars sported anything daring as "Stop Barry, The Life You Save May Be Your Own." The LBJ bumper tag army is specially socially in their electioneering an in their...