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...lost the presidency by the barest of margins, ran with the same intensity for the right to run for the lesser office of Governor. In Massachusetts, the Kennedy family, unafraid of the slings and arrows from lesser breeds, proudly ran its youngest son through a convention gauntlet, and saw him emerge the victor. The loser was kin to the Speaker of the House, but no matter-the Kennedys know how to win and patch up. In Connecticut, always considered a bellwether state, no fewer than six Republicans spent lavishly of their blood, sweat and cash, and fought through eight ballots...
Prisoners Run Gauntlet...
They were taken to a police station crowded with "interested citizens of the community." The prisoners were led through a double line of roughnecks, and forced to run the gauntlet through the kicking, cursing, spitting throng while the policemen looked...
...passes constantly through the rearing tank. A milk formula is slipped in through a sterile lock. Already inside are sterile eye droppers with rubber nipples. Every hour, 24 hours a day, the young animals must be fed by hand, always by the tedious process of working through a rubber gauntlet. Monkeys, with the longest "nursing" time, are the costliest animals to raise. Pigs are better: born with their eyes open, they are not a feeding problem, and when only six weeks old they are the right size for experimental surgery which may later be adapted to man. Small animals such...
After visiting the governor with a city council delegation, enquiring about the Inner Belt, McNamara threw down his personal gauntlet: "If you think the fuss over the toll road led by Mayor Gibbs of Newton is creating a stir, it is but a lawn party compared to what will happen in Cambridge if a Belt highway on one of the routes now proposed is announced...