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...Uelses: "Let Bragg do the talking. I'll do the vaulting.") An official of the International Amateur Athletic Federation darkly hinted that world records set with fiber-glass poles might be disallowed. Sportswriters compared vaulting's "lively pole" to baseball's "lively ball." Asked Columnist Arthur Daley of the New York' Times: "Is it cricket?" The World-Telegram and Sun's Joe Williams had an ambiguous answer: "The fiber-glass pole is as legitimate as a zip gun in a rumble...
...suggestion that he try for the Senate had come from Chicago's Democratic Mayor Richard J. Daley. In bad need of a big-name Democrat to contest Incumbent Republican Everett Dirksen, Daley had talked with the White House, said that he wanted to make the offer to Adlai. Getting no particular presidential objection, he telephoned Stevenson, put the question directly...
...against Dirksen next year. But Adlai remained fascinated by the notion. Last fortnight he journeyed to Washington, discussed the matter with Kennedy. The President's reaction was such that Stevenson emerged from the White House to announce publicly that he was "considering" the Senate contest. In Chicago, Dick Daley understandably viewed this as a formal acceptance. He publicly predicted that Stevenson would trounce Dirksen by at least 500,000 votes...
That was enough for Stevenson. Last week, back in New York, he phoned Daley and turned him down, saying: "The President has greatly reinforced my view that I can best serve him and the country in the field of foreign policy...
Adlai said that he had been asked by Chicago's Democratic Mayor Richard J. Daley if he was "interested in running," and that he had discussed the possibility with President Kennedy. Stevenson plans to announce his final decision, to be "guided by the best interests of my party and the Administration," by the end of this year...