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Led by quarterback Rog Skemp, the overpowering Elephant offense racked up 151 points to its opposition's mere 8. (Dunster scored the only TD against Eliot this fall.)

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football, Soccer Teams to Challenge Bulldogs | 11/18/1960 | See Source »

As the night wore on, crowds gathered outside the Hyannis National Guard Armory, where carpenters had set up a makeshift platform from which Kennedy would make his nationwide victory speech. Pranksters hoisted a stuffed elephant on a telephone pole; newsmen milled about, waiting. Agents of the U.S. Secret Service, assigned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Man of the New Frontier | 11/16/1960 | See Source »

Time and again, Kennedy needled Richard Nixon for clinging to Ike's coattails, challenged the Vice President waspishly to bring Ike along for a fifth TV debate. In California, Arizona and Illinois he gibed at the fact that Nixon, Ike, Vice-Presidential Candidate Henry Cabot Lodge and Governor Nelson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Search for a Fulcrum | 11/14/1960 | See Source »

Something resembling a Stevensonian cult has formed around Bagwell. At Michigan State, some members of Delta Sigma Pi fraternity sold a pint of blood to swell the Bagwell campaign chest. The statewide Bagwell Boosters number 12,000 members, more than Michigan's Citizens for Eisenhower at highest tide. Negroes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHIGAN: The Professor's New Course | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

Beauty has poured out of both castle and cottage. The rich had their silver-laden chairs, nobility had its gold table service, and royalty had its jeweled Order of the Elephant. But there were ornate crowns for village brides, carved and painted cupboards for the peasant, delicate silverware for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: THE ROOM AT THE TOP | 10/17/1960 | See Source »

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