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...Congressional from Washington bumped to a halt in a gloomy cavern beneath Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station one evening last week. Amid the crowd that surged out onto the platform, indistinguishable from his fellow passengers except for an extra bit of height (6 ft. 1 in.) and an extra gleam in his eye, walked a middle-aged man with a battered suitcase in his hand and his coat collar turned up against the wintry drafts. As he made his way through the station to the snow-blanketed street to hail himself a taxi, nobody recognized...
...exhausted by ordeal, detached from human deeds, feeling the approach of the eternal cold, but always watching in the shadows for the gleam of hope...
...exhausted by ordeal, feeling the approach of the eternal cold, but always watching in the shadows for the gleam of hope...
When 60-year-old Economist Hayato Ikeda succeeded hapless Nobusuke Kishi as Premier of Japan three weeks ago, a hopeful gleam lit up Peking's eyes. Though Ikeda, of course, was avowedly pro-American, he had once expressed enthusiasm for a revival of Japanese trade with China. Peking thought a little buttering up might...
...reports that Governor Edmund ("Pat") Brown was now "leaning" Kennedyward, but Brown was not yet talked out of his 81 first-ballot favorite-son votes. Penn sylvania's Governor David Lawrence (81 votes) kept his silence. Kennedy-minded Lawrence watchers thought that they read a new Kennedy gleam in his eye, but Lyndon Johnson's forces began claiming 27 Pennsylvania votes...