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Tired Rerun. The cumulative effect of the TV debates only served to underline the Nixon lag. Last week's go-round gave the Democratic candidate yet another chance to exhibit the Kennedy charisma-the smile, the cataract of words, the repeated promise to move forward-that has put Nixon at a disadvantage before the Big Eye. Debate No. 4 in itself gave little new substance to their views, though, as before, the tension of the confrontation made the occasion dramatic. The inflexible format and generally inept questioning by TV newscasters produced a disappointing, almost high schoolish, rerun...
Steppingstones? Nixon picked up Kennedy's trigger-happy charge on the first go-round, tossed it back with the reminder that the last three wars (World War I, World War II and Korea) had begun in Democratic Administrations. ("I do not mean by that that one party is a war party...
...long session was the committee's last go-round with Hoffa (unless it should dredge up some new evidence). It held particular importance for the Brothers Kennedy-suntanned Committee Counsel Robert, whom Hoffa detests, and Massachusetts' Senator John, who had hoped that a fresh public examination of Hoffa's questionable dealings might help his labor bill along in the House-a matter of increasing urgency since Hoffa is now mulling over the idea of creating a nationwide "council" of transport workers with the help of Red-tinged Harry Bridges of the West Coast International Longshoremen...
...highly conscientious legislator. Hays had been so busy with the unfamiliar duties and responsibilities of his new post as lay president of the Southern Baptist Convention that he could find little time to do his homework on the new foreign-aid program. On the committee's first go-round, he instinctively voted against a sharp departure from Congress' customary practice of year-to-year authorizations for foreign aid. But Hays felt uneasy about his vote. On his weekend, he read up on the advantages of a long-range fund: e.g., a three-year authorization, in place...
...through the long tour Nixon rarely allowed himself to lose sight of his diplomatic job. And-as correspondents began to discover toward the end of the tour-the job was far more than handshakes and baby-patting. On his seven-nation (Morocco, Ghana, Liberia, Uganda, Ethiopia, Sudan, Libya) African go-round, he held down-to-earth closed-door conferences with African leaders, learned how to juggle tactfully the usual requests for foreign aid, came away each time satisfied that he had done something to explain the goals and hopes...