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...that June in '61, when I sat with him [in the Oval Office], he was shaken by the experiences he had. And I remember him saying to me, 'Well Nate, when Franklin had this job, it was a cinch. He didn't have all of these world problems. He had only to cope with poverty in the United States, but look what I've got.' I remember being some what amazed that he could have reached the presidency and still have been as startled and shocked as he was by his meeting with Khrushchev. This seemed to me incredible...
...easy to exaggerate Procaccino's mistakes. One the whole, his failure to parlay an early lead into an election-eve cinch was built into the works of the campaign. Procaccino's record is undistinguished and on several counts deeply vulnerable, thus muting the impact of his attacks on the Lindsay Administration...
Although Arts and Letters faced only three other horses in the Woodward, he proved himself. The classic distance, weight-for-age conditions, and the three beat older horses-Nodouble, Chompion, Verbatim-made the Woodward a true test of class. Arts and Letters appears a cinch for Horse of the Year, Majestic Prince notwithstanding. The Scientist
...afford, It's a cinch that the bum is under...
Four Democratic incumbents-Herman Talmadge of Georgia, Hawaii's Daniel Inouye, North Carolina's Sam Ervin and Ernest Hollings of South Carolina-Seem virtually assured of reelection. Democrat James Allen, a conservative Southerner, is a cinch to win the seat of Alabama's retiring Lister Hill. Five Republicans-Illinois' Everett Dirksen, New Hampshire's Norris Cotton, New York's Jacob Javits, Utah's Wallace Bennett and Vermont's George Aiken-are likewise rated as shoo...