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...includes Campaign Director Denison Kitchel and such experienced political pros as New York's Len Hall, Ohio's Ray Bliss and California's Bill Knowland, to review and plot progress. They study polls, preview ad drives, advise on policy, and discuss what to do about the chronic shortage of campaign funds. Already, the top advisers have analyzed past election returns in sufficient detail to assign every county in the U.S. (total: 3,131) a quota of Goldwater votes to deliver. Their three-phase plan for precinct-level activity: 1) canvass every household for Goldwater votes, 2) help...
...film festival is an esthetic booby trap fraught with perils. It can be little more than a lure for cinesnobs who like to see important movies before the public does. It can be the cause of ulcers and chronic hangover among bleary international delegates who traipse the circuit year after year, vying for palms, cups, lions and laurels at more than 100 festivals from Valladolid to Venice, from Karlovy Vary to Knokke-Le-Zoute. But it can also be the crackling excitement of the new cinema giving birth to authentic genius...
...Broad Jumper Boston, Ohio's Rex Cawley had an intriguing theory about breaking world records: don't train. Cawley's worked too: he ran the 400-meter hurdles in 49.1 sec. And then there was California Schoolteacher Mike Larrabee, who really should have stayed in bed. Chronic gastritis, ruptured pancreas and all, Larrabee tied the world mark by sprinting 400 meters...
Setting off on a tour of Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia to visit installations of the Pious Society of St. James the Apostle (which he founded in 1958), Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing, 68, felt the twinges of age and chronic asthma. "I don't want to go," he confessed, "but just as St. Paul stung his flesh, and just as President Kennedy stung his flesh, so I must sting mine to fight the enemies of morality...
...river fleets were antiquated. Increased costs forced planners to forgo reinvestment and research. The demand for factory labor trimmed the country's farm population from 3,300,000 to 1,300,000, often left the farms to be run by women, and helped sow the seeds for chronic crop shortages...