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Humphrey suffered no direct damage in Indiana and was only nicked in Washington, but he stands to lose considerably if Kennedy runs a string of primary victories that crush McCarthy's candidacy soon. Humphrey's standing above the primaries while Kennedy and McCarthy slug it out is sound strategy only so long as McCarthy keeps slugging. If McCarthy cannot slow Kennedy's pace, Humphrey will have to fight more vigorously to pick up delegates in the nonprimary states and to maintain a creditable standing in public-opinion polls. The Vice President began testing a rhetorical weapon last...
...with Lieutenant Governor Preston Smith, 56. An archconservative, Smith will probably gain the right-wing votes that were shared with other candidates in the first tally, and thus must now be counted a slight favorite. The runoff will bring the two wings of the Texas Democratic Party into direct confrontation. As a result, the Governor's mansion and all of its powers of patronage might conceivably go to the G.O.P. for the first time in the state's history. Republican Paul Eggers, 49, a Wichita Falls lawyer who was virtually unknown when he was picked for the race...
...sanctums. He was beside Kennedy in the Situation Room when the President won his terms on the limited test-ban treaty, urged Kennedy to publish photographic proof of the Cuban missile buildup and persuaded him, over Navy objections, to order a delay in intercepting Russian ships, thereby avoiding a direct confrontation with the Soviets. "It was a freak of history," he says of his influence then. "Those years proved to be the most rewarding of my life." They also instilled in him a loyalty to the Kennedys: Harlech has already endorsed Bobby's presidential candidacy over British...
...Make a note of the name of Nixdorf," read advertisements that have been appearing in West German news papers. By such direct promotion, a stripling in the computer field has established its own European image among such veterans as IBM, Machines Bull and Siemens. With only 700 employees in a factory in the Westphalian town of Paderborn, Nixdorf still sells two out of every three small digital computers bought in West Germany. At the annual Hannover fair, Nixdorf's first-time display became a magnet for Germans interested in business machines; of the fairgoers who visited the Nixdorf booth...
...vierges mythiques qui hantent les musees et les adolescents." Michel Legrand's music (never absent--like Cherbourg, the film is entirely sung) makes much use of half a dozen excellent themes; a ridiculously Rachmanioffy piano concerto and the chanson de Maxence are particularly memorable. Demy's lyrics simple and direct ("Estelle loin d'ici? Est-elle pres de moi? Je n'en sais rien encore mais je sais qu'elle existe.") advancing exposition without heavy reliance on metaphor or fantastic imagery: Solange (Francoise Dorleac) asks her Delphine, "Qu'est-ce que tu as?" and Deneuve sings back bluntly, "Je suis...