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...many who would say that the TV debates did Nixon the most harm, giving the unknown Kennedy a chance to show himself. There would be Republican post-mortems over where an ounce of extra energy might have tipped the balance. Republicans might well wonder whether defeat came because Dwight Eisenhower had failed to dramatize the real gains of his Administration, or whether one or two more presidential speeches might have made the difference. The Kennedy forces would re-examine their overconfidence in places such as Ohio and Wisconsin and Alaska...
...privacy last week, fast-running Jack Kennedy was restless and tense. He fidgeted with his tie clasp, rolled and squeezed a magazine or tapped his feet. All surface signs were pointing to a Kennedy victory, but the Democrats had a good dose of down-to- the-wire nervousness over Dwight Eisenhower's all-out support for Nixon, and over the nagging question of the religion vote...
...head and thick skins," said Kennedy, "who move around the circus ring and grab the tail of the elephant ahead of them. Dick Nixon grabbed that tail in 1952 and 1956, but this year he faces the American people alone." In none of his sallies did Kennedy ever attack Dwight Eisenhower directly...
...times faster than sound and 15 miles above the ground, it could serve as a nuclear bomber, a satellite launcher, or a six-jet civilian transport that could span the Atlantic in an hour. But what would be its strategic value in the missile age? "Doubtful," answered Old Infantryman Dwight Eisenhower last January, as he chopped the B-70's development budget for fiscal 1961 from a requested $385 million to only $75 million, barely enough to build two stripped-down flying shells. Last week, just eight days before the election, the Eisenhower Administration swung around, increased fiscal...
...island of Quemoy within easy range of the Red Chinese coast artillery. Bedded in Baltimore in a cast, Dr. Milton Eisenhower, 61, president of Johns Hopkins University, got word from doctors that his slipped disc will keep him out of action for another three months. With "great reluctance," brother Dwight accepted his resignation from advisory committees on Government organization and inter-American affairs. In London to be a 20th Century-Fox movie version of Cleopatra, Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor has lain ill for four weeks-at an "astronomical" cost in lost shooting time to Producer Walter Wanger. With a low, persistent...