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...been tempted to come out soon for Humphrey now have an excuse to wait and see. Indiana also gave Kennedy a nudge in the right direction for this week's Nebraska primary. The New Yorker is now in a position to trot ahead to Oregon, California and South Dakota. At week's end Kennedy seemed in a good position to score again...
That many Southern Democratic leaders and Northern businessmen should want to become part of Humphrey's design astounds those who remember him as the symbol of ultra-liberal factionalism. But Humphrey has been more accommodated than accommodating. Son of a small-town South Dakota pharmacist who loved politics, people and poetry, he grew up in farm country where the Depression came early and stayed long. Hubert Horatio Sr., the "town rebel," the Democratic chairman of Republican Spink County who joshed about his wife's being "politically unreliable" (she voted for Harding and Coolidge), the kind of father who sat Junior...
...finds the shiny-eyed eldest daughter (Lesley Ann Warren) to his likin'. Trouble is, the boy's a Ree-publican, and Democrat Grandpa finds him ree-voltin' Eventually Davidson talks the family into drivin' their folks' wagon on down to his home in Dakota, but that don't make no never mind. It's feudin' and fightin' soon's they git there. The young lovers fall out -but not out of the pitcher, unfortunately. Grandpa gits so riled he won't even conduct the family bane no more...
...little uncertainty on the Minnesotan's part is thus understandable. Fortnight ago, he announced he would enter the South Dakota primary; last week he said maybe not. Kennedy strength has been growing there. At Bowdoin College, McCarthy said he would "favor" Johnson over Richard Nixon in the general election; later at Racine, he mused aloud that, if eliminated himself he might be neutral next fall. "I have a commitment," McCarthy cracked, "as chairman of the [Senate] subcommittee on Africa that I might honor at the time with a last great safari...
INDIANA, May 7. McCarthy added the Hoosier State to his primary list last week, along with South Dakota. This move denied Kennedy the opportunity to take on Johnson alone. McCarthy has had an organization working on his campaign since December. Johnson forces, as elsewhere, are disorganized, and last week had still not decided on a stand-in to lead the Pres ident's faction. Kennedy said he was undecided whether to enter. The out look is uncertain...