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...Latin America's most intriguing spectator sports over the past weeks has been watching the Western hemisphere's newest and youngest Presidents, presiding over its two most populous nations, as they size each other up. President Kennedy, was plainly anxious to corral Latin American support for his New Frontier. Brazil's Janio Quadros, 44, was just as eager to map out his own new frontier-in which U.S. influence would loom less large. While declaring himself irrevocably pro-West, Quadros veered sharply away from the U.S. stand on Red China in the U.N., brushed aside all invitations...
...Kennedy's wife Ethel left Washington last week and headed West on the first all-female foray of the presidential campaign. Disturbed by reports of Texas' growing unhappiness with Lyndon Johnson for supporting the liberal civil rights plank in the Democratic platform, the ladies were determined to corral the female vote and save the Lone Star State for their party...
...years in Congress, he pointed up boyish-looking, 43-year-old Jack Kennedy's comparative youth and inexperience by warning that the "forces of evil," meaning international Communism, "will have no mercy for innocence, no gallantry toward inexperience." With another sly jab, Johnson hit at the Kennedy drive to corral convention delegates: "I would not presume to tell my fellow Democrats that I am the only man they should consider for this job or to demand that any delegate or delegation vote for me. I am not going to go elbowing through 179 million Americans?pushing aside other Senators...
...political welfare of every other Republican candidate. A Gallup poll last week showed that, as of now, 60% of the electorate favored Democratic congressional candidates, with only 40% planning to vote for Republicans-the lowest congressional score ever polled by the G.O.P. Nixon must seek every means to corral the party's strays, reconcile its wide-ranging factions (from New York's liberal Jack Javits to Arizona's conservative Barry Goldwater), and mold the G.O.P. into a strong, united political force. Nixon's most notable recent moves in this direction have been his indirect overtures...
...feed the hungry and clothe the naked-as Christians should-instead of proposing to corral the world's population like so many animals by proposing a Prophylactic Policy of Containment...