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Well aware that his. Senate career has not brought him the headlines that it has brought his rival colleagues, Kennedy, Johnson and Humphrey, Symington has embarked on a strenuous schedule of speechmaking trips around the country to get himself better known. Mid-October found him in Thomasville, Ga. for a speech to the Rotary and Kiwanis clubs. From there the trail led to Cairo, Ga., his native town of Amherst, to Danbury, Conn., Painesville, Ohio, Gainesville, Fla. Last week, back from Abbeville, he spoke at Democratic meetings in New Castle and Easton, Pa., at St. Louis' Washington University...
...acknowledged privately that he might ultimately find himself Adlai Stevenson's vice-presidential candidate, let the word out that he entertains no vice-presidential ambitions for himself. ¶ Oregon's stormy Senator Wayne Morse, violent anti-Kennedyite and the capital's most accomplished collector of enemies, found a new one in his erstwhile chum, Wisconsin's Kennedy-leaning Senator William Proxmire. Invading Milwaukee for a speech, Morse lashed out at the "gutless wonders" and "phony liberals" who had voted for "the Kennedy-Landrum-Grifnn labor reform bill" (TIME, Sept. 14). Proxmire hit back: Morse...
...further inquiry, however, among the debris of the landslide were found a Hellenistic chamber tomb, a Roman wall-painted chamber, two Lydian town walls, and a room of the seventh century B.C. These three Lydian finds represent three distinctly different phases of Lydian civilization and so will be immensely useful in tracking the urban growth of this area, one of the main objects of the expedition. An interesting sidelight of these discoveries along the Patoclus is that the Roman graves are placed near where the Lydian city had been. The Romans always buried outside the city walls; the sixth century...
...Stadium's north end. There was real fear among the public, despite the many years of testing, that the concrete stands would weaken and crumble as soon as they came into use. To allay these doubts, the construction superintendent prominently walked around under the stands while the spectators found their seats...
Lucius always found it challenging to try to work after a meal, and again his thoughts went to the game. He had not been since that time his first year, and this would be his last chance. It still was not too late, for Lucius was never one to waste an opportunity, and he always applied for his free ticket and carried it with him on Saturday just as a precaution...