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...process; polls show that Nixon's acceptance speech and his choice of Henry Cabot Lodge as a running mate have gone over with the public a lot better than Kennedy's speech (which swiped at Nixon) and his tactical choice of Lyndon Johnson. Round Two is the dead-end session of Congress, which is creaking toward adjournment. There Kennedy met with a nightmarish series of grim surprises and jolting defeats...
...dead-end session, Kennedy embarrassingly showed what a lot of his fellow Senators already knew: that he was never a real insider in the Senate, had never mastered its nuances. Accordingly, he greatly overestimated his capacity, as his party's presidential nominee, to control the course of legislation. Oldtime Southern lawmakers, grown powerful through seniority, were confident of retaining their seats and seniority whether Kennedy wins in November or not. They felt no need to follow his cues, badly messed up his plans (see The Congress...
...dead-end session of Congress limped to an end, Kennedymen were confidently predicting that Jack's way with crowds would start gaining votes as soon as he could get out campaigning. The campaign had hardly begun. It would be won or lost, not in the South or the Farm Belt, or even in the big industrial states -New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, Illinois and California-where Kennedy confidently counted his Catholicism an asset rather than a liability. It would be won or lost in the nation as a whole. For this is the first truly national campaign in which...
Only one really caught Allyn's eye: "No relatives in the business." Patterson did not really mean it. But it was enough to persuade Allyn to start clerking at $20 a week, though friends told him that the cash register was a dead-end business-everybody...
Children at Play. Aalto makes no secret of his views on the state of architecture. The endless repetition of glass squares and synthetic metals, he maintains, has become a dead-end street. "Grownup children play with curves and tensions they do not control," he snorts. "It smells of Hollywood. The human being becomes forgotten." His office now has projects for a new cultural center for Wolfsburg, Germany (home of the Volkswagen works), a museum in Denmark, a semicircular apartment house in Bremen and a new opera house for Essen. Says U.S. Architect Eero Saarinen, himself the son of a famed...