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...writing in the President's name. Because some voters might invalidate their ballots by misspelling Lyndon or Baines, campaign tacticians are urging them simply to put down "President Johnson." Some 15,000 green-and-white PRESIDENT JOHNSON lapel pins and an equal number of WRITE IN PRESIDENT JOHNSON bumper stickers are being distributed, while about 2,000 neighborhood coordinators will personally hand out numbered "pledge cards" to the state's 87,500 registered Democrats and to many of its 113,000 independents...
...Bumper-to-Bumper. The upsurge of trouble in Laos came as the scarred battlefields of South Viet Nam fell relatively silent after two weeks of the fiercest fighting of the war in which a record 5,084 Communist soldiers were killed. Said U.S. Commander General Wil liam C. Westmoreland: "The Communists seem to have run temporarily out of steam." But probably not for long. Watching the North Vietnamese buildup across the border, Westmoreland expects a major enemy attack at Khe Sanh either shortly before or after the seven-day lunar new year celebration of Tet that starts...
Since Oct. 15, Red trucks have been streaming southward in bumper-to-bumper convoys. The Trail has been expanded in many stretches into a two-lane highway that is artfully camouflaged and heavily defended by dug-in and mobile antiaircraft batteries. So serious is the increase in traffic that the U.S. is now bombing more in Laos than in North Viet Nam. In December the U.S. flew 6,722 combat sorties over Laos, hitting fuel dumps, traffic and gun emplacements along the Trail, v. only 5,692 over North Viet Nam. Even so, roughly 80% of the trucks get through...
...much because of his stilted speaking style as from the fact that the state has only one TV channel-Romney did challenge Nixon to a debate, which his foe is unlikely to accept. The Michigander also refrained from inundating the state with the traditional gadgetry: only 1,000 bumper stickers have been ordered, along with a few hundred psychedelic posters that show Romney glowing with an inner purple light. Instead, he is depending on a combination of computers and charisma...
Mixers serve the undeniably important function of shooting down each year's bumper crop of high school valedictorians and star quarterbacks. It teaches them conversational facility. ("Oh, you're from Fulton, Missouri? I had a cousin who drove through there once. He didn't like it.") It impresses on them the need for physical training. It makes them glad to study. It forces them to appreciate Cliffies for what they are--nearby...