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Little Black Bag. With each weary day, the campaign grew more bitter. Humphrey hinted darkly that his opponent was buying West Virginia votes. "I can't afford to run through this state with a little black bag and a checkbook," he cried in Kingwood. And again, at Philippi: "I don't think elections should be bought. Let that sink in deeply." But there was no more evidence of political payola than rumors and hints, and even less that the West Virginia vote could be bought at any price. Said a state official in Logan County: "This county...
...sensed the let-out partisanship of his listeners, proceeded to wow them with a wry reference to the Nixon-Rockefeller contest: "The Republicans apparently believe that two's a crowd. They'll give us a choice of a vote for Checkers or a vote for a checkbook." But before a serious, nonpartisan service club luncheon in Des Moines, he picked a careful, solemn path. "I live by the rule that I am first a free man," he said, "then an American, a Senator of the United States, and a Democrat, in that order." Local Republicans and Democrats stood...
Economic Commissar. With the shakeup, the form of the Castro government, months in the shaping, came clear. Fidel Castro, who helicopters about the country dispensing largesse from the blue National Bank checkbook he always carries in his breast pocket, is political chief. His pony-tailed brother Raul is military boss, commanding the 35,000-man rebel army that is the regime's principal arm of force and terror, notably for rounding up all suspected oppositionists on a charge of "counterrevolution" (last week's bag: 250 prisoners...
...came with a checkbook, but he made it. He is in the theater. And his contribution is unique. You described him the opening night of a hit. Closing night of a flop tells a lot more. He blew in from somewhere (London? Washington? Detroit?) to catch the author. "I'm glad...
...basketball team, the Harlem Trotters. But the first Trotter game drew only 1,200 fans to Sydney's White City Stadium (capacity: 7,000). Leo bawled into the microphone: "If what I've done is a crime, then hang me!" Fans hooted back: "Take your checkbook and go home to America!" Western Promotions forthwith announced that they had had enough...