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...Southern background proved his greatest handicap; no genuine Southerner had been elected to the White House since Zachary Taylor in 1848.*It was the geographical barrier that Jack Kennedy was talking about when he said, some time before his own nomination: "I know all the other candi dates pretty well...
...Sinister East. What was Candi date Goldwater doing while Scranton was hitting the Midwestern hustings against him? For one thing, he was still picking up delegates. Montana, last of all the states to select its delegates, picked a solid, 14-member Goldwater group. Three days earlier in Texas, Goldwater had, as expected, added all 56 of the state's delegates. At the Texas convention, Goldwater extended his past attacks on the sinister "Eastern clique" of powerful Republicans who oppose him to include certain elements of the press. Said he: "All of a sudden all the radical columnists-Childs, Lippmann...
Last October, Michael Vincent Di Salle, Ohio's roly-poly Democratic Governor, announced that he would not be a candi date for re-election next November. Di Salle was discouraged by his failure to get social welfare bills through the Republican state legislature, saw an ill omen in Richard Nixon's 273,363-vote victory over John Kennedy in the state...
...Foster went to work in a stonecutter's shop at ten, became a Socialist at 19, proved himself as an organizer by leading a bitter 1919 strike of more than 365,000 A.F. of L. steelworkers. Joining the Communist Party two years later, he was three times its candi date for President (his best showing: 102,881 votes in 1932), helped stage the 1945 purge of Earl Browder, in 1948 was indicted along with eleven other U.S. Communist leaders under the Smith Act, but escaped trial because of failing health...
Castro shouted the name of one candi date for the wall: Major Hubert Matos, the revolutionary hero who quit the army a fortnight ago charging Communist infiltration (TIME, Nov. 2) and for his troubles wound up in prison along with 38 of his officers. "Pilots who crash here," added Castro, referring to the leaflet-dropping runs by U.S.-based Cuban exiles, "will know that the firing squad awaits them inexorably...