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...Zakopane, Poland, East Germany's boyish Helmut Recknagel, 24, soared 338 ft.-3 ft. more than the nearest competitor-to cinch his second straight world ski-jumping championship...
...until last weekend that George Romney, 54, president and board chairman of American Motors Corp., announced that he would make his first run for elective of fice. Said Michigan's Romney: "I will be a candidate for the Republican guberna torial nomination." Although Romney is a cinch to win that nomination, he faces an uphill fight against Incumbent Democratic Governor John Swainson in the fall. Yet many a politician and pundit were already measuring him for 1964, and the reasons were plain enough. The Republicans have three much bigger names than Romney, but each carries some weighty liabilities. Nixon...
...case, after the re-emergence, at least eating will be a cinch. If you are a farmer, all you have to do, the book says, is go out to the barn and slaughter a cow. As everybody knows, cows are extremely sensitive to "nuclear weapons" and upon perceiving a detonation, immediately go into a two-week-long state of suspended animation. Fortunately, therefore, neither milking nor feeding is necessary during this period...
Assuming that there are no new complications in his personal life, Rocky still seems a cinch for re-election next year as Governor-a prerequisite to the 1964 nomination. So far, few candidates of either party have seemed eager to test him for Governor. But last week two-term U.S. Representative Samuel S. (for Studdiford) Stratton, 45, a lean, attractive Democrat from upstate Schenectady, announced that he would try for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. In the past, Stratton has done handsomely in generally Republican territory-to the point that the 1961 Republican-controlled legislature gerrymandered him out of his district...
...daydream in which Adlai Stevenson is President. This latter-day reverie has nothing to do with Romagna's political preference. To him, all men, including Presidents, are measured by the quality of their syntax, platform delivery and oral timbre. Using these criteria, Romagna says Stevenson would be a cinch to transcribe. "Adlai's English was made for the shorthand system," says Jack Romagna. "It's marvelous. He has a grand command of the language. And ah, the phrasing...