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...boarded the train in Chicago one hour and 15 minutes earlier. Groggily, he shrugged into his overcoat, smiled wanly while his wife scolded him for having left his galoshes behind. Then, spotting a cluster of photographers on the platform outside, his eyes took on a ballpoint gleam, and he headed for the vestibule with a big hello-everybody smile on his face. On the train steps he paused, scooped up a snowball and threw it at the photographers. Hubert Horatio Humphrey, 48, was off and running as only he can run, down the tortuous course of the 1960 presidential primary...
...paign will be to convince independents that Nixon is a modern Republican and not the pawn of the Old Guard right wing, as the Democrats gleefully charge (although Californian Nixon was, in fact, a modern Republican before Eisenhower was a candidate or before Rockefeller had a political gleam...
...Iowa's Democratic Governor Herschel Loveless, who has a vice-presidential gleam in his eye, made an unscheduled sortie across the Mississippi to Moline, Ill., for a testimonial dinner for Massachusetts, hard-running Senator Jack Kennedy. Asked if this meant an endorsement, Loveless smiled and replied: "You can say that rumor has it so." ¶ In Washington later, Senator Kennedy, having 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...
...most important for students to see that in our country there is no fear," Castro said, with a gleam in his eyes that was more than the reflection of the flashbulbs popping around us. "You can speak with every Cuban to know why he is so happy. You must understand us. We want mutual understanding, for you young people will be future leaders...
Though The New College Plan itself remain an unexplored possibility, the Presidents of the four sponsoring institutions show enthusiasm. "We are all eager to have the project explored more fully," said Richard G. Gettell of Mt. Holyoke, "and have high hopes that what started as a gleam-in-the-eye may, before too long, become a reality." Charles W. Cole of Amherst said that "were New College created, it would have a tremendous impact on existing institutions and on the whole problem of creating new ones...