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Pickrick Drumsticks. Democratic strategists made no secret of their fear that the outbursts could help trim their majorities in November. "If the rioting doesn't fade away-indeed, if there's renewed violence in the streets-it will hurt us," declared Vice President Hubert Humphrey as he stumped California and three other Western states. Just how much it might hurt Democratic prospects was demonstrated on the other side of the continent the same day. In Georgia, moderate former Governor Ellis Arnall entered a runoff for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination as a heavy favorite against Lester Maddox, a strident...
...always, of course, will one individual's liberalism suddenly fade; sometimes the change is more subtle, and sometimes a vacillating liberal opposes--or runs in place of--a truly liberal incumbent...
...mass is blown out at speeds approaching that of light, and enters the earth's atmosphere as cosmic rays. A second wave of slower radiation and burning gases causes the supernova to shine with prodigal splendor for weeks or even years until the star's remains gradually fade...
However it happens-through negotiation or just by a fade-away-the war must end some day, and it is in line with this certainty that the peace efforts will and must continue. Said Rusk in Tokyo, reiterating a favorite theme: "I would be in Geneva tomorrow if there was somebody from Hanoi and Peking to talk about peace." Trouble is, as one U.S. diplomat put it, "the other side keeps hanging up the phone." Nonetheless, while the bombs keep falling, the phone will keep ringing...
China-watching will become increasingly important as the old leaders fade back and the new ones come onstage. Says M.I.T. Professor Lucian Pye: "Though Chinese Communism is here to stay, it is certainly going to change greatly." There are plenty of important clues for the China-watchers to keep their eye out for. They will watch for signs that the younger technocrats in the Chinese government are making any headway against the insistence on doctrinal purity, as the technocrats have done in Russia. Will the successors of Mao, involved with their own problems, retreat in the face of American power...