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While the past fortnight gave Jack Kennedy an advantage in being able to campaign without competition, it also gave Nixon the advantage of being able to store up some rest and collect his thoughts-an advantage that a sometimes hoarse and weary Jack Kennedy might well eye with envy...
...fortnight lopped out of Nixon's own busy campaign schedule might be considered a serious political misfortune, but Nixonmen argued that he could profitably use the hospital stay for needed rest and staff work. With Nixon abed. Running Mate Henry Cabot Lodge spent the Labor Day weekend touring Catskill mountain resorts and New York public beaches in company with Rockefeller...
...commanding lead over his opponent, Jack Kennedy-50% to 44%-in the hearts of his voting countrymen. The poll caused jitters at Kennedy headquarters, some doubts amidst the jubilation in Nixon's camp, and considerable skepticism in the ranks of Washington commentators. Last week, a scant fortnight after his first poll, Gallup announced that Kennedy had moved up to a dead heat with Nixon-47% to 47%. What still bothered the skeptics in all camps was the suspiciously low 6% of the electorate Gallup found still undecided between the two candidates...
...Fortnight ago Lumumba's troops had captured without a shot the town of Bakwanga, capital of a would-be autonomous republic called "Mining State." But when they sought to move out of Ba kwanga and "pacify" the rest of Mining State, hundreds of fierce Lumumba-hating Baluba tribesmen attacked through the forest, driving the central-government troops back into town. From sources unknown, the anti-Lumumba forces have acquired automatic weapons and mortars. Reports from Bakwanga at week's end told of streets littered with almost 300 bodies. The few remaining whites were said to have taken refuge...
When the U.N. General Assembly meets next fortnight, India-for the first time in five years-will not be out front leading the annual fight to admit Red China...