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...impossible to get Humphrey literature distributed in plants with Catholic shop stewards. But Kennedy worked hard for the labor vote, shaking hands at factory gates, attending shop meetings, cultivating labor's rank and file; he was doubtless helped too by Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa's foray into Wisconsin to carry on his vicious vendetta against the Kennedys. Kennedy ran well enough in the farm districts to prove that he has some farmer appeal but lost by enough to prove that he is vulnerable to Humphrey's pounding at his agriculture voting record. Humphrey was beaten...
...Town, where a cordon of helmeted soldiers and sailors surrounded 100,000 beleaguered Africans in Nyanga and Langa townships, police launched lightning raids from dawn to dusk. The cops broke into the squalid homes at random, flailing the hapless inhabitants with whips and shouting "Go to work." In one foray, more than 1,500 were herded away to police stations for questioning...
...warm hand on a cold day." The response, on the whole, was fairly predictable: in the "backyard" of Minnesota's Humphrey, Kennedy could do little more than try to get himself known. (Humphrey himself was bedded down with a cold, missed most of his scheduled weekend foray, sent his wife Muriel to stump...
...Chicago to attend a Governors' Conference committee meeting on a serious subject that he takes seriously: the urgent need for civil defense fallout shelters (TIME, July 20). But a glance at his two-day schedule was ample evidence that he was also embarked on his first major political foray outside New York, a fact that made his tenseness all the more noticeable. At a first-day press conference in the Shoreland Hotel ballroom he irritated reporters by parrying the political questions. Finally a newsman asked if he was trying to duck questions about his presidential ambitions. Said a withdrawn...
Fortnight ago the Amsterdam underworld, outraged by declining dividends, took matters into its own hands, dispatched a flying squad of 50 musclemen, who set upon a gang of nozem out on a heckling foray and administered professional beatings all around. The same evening Amsterdam's police commissioner got a telephone call from the city's leading racketeer. Willem ("Fat Steak'') Wagenaar. Said Fat Steak: "If you can't keep order in our district, we'll take over. Keep your police at home; we'll fix the nozem." Bubbling with official indignation, the commissioner...