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Opportunity to Choose. A major issue will be Viet Nam, and probably nowhere in the nation will voters have a better opportunity to choose between senatorial candidates so split on the war. Though uneasy about some aspects of it, Duncan generally supports the war. On the other hand, no one else in Congress-not even Arkansas' J. William Fulbright-has been so consistently and vociferously opposed as Wayne Morse, who calls U.S. policy "immoral and illegal." Morse is one of only two Senators-with Alaska Democrat Ernest Gruening-who voted against the Tonkin Gulf Resolution...
...Negro Marine heard Mormon Romney speak and asked dryly: "Is the Governor letting Negroes into his church yet?" Another Marine at Danang refused at first to shake his hand. "I don't like some of the things you've been saying about Viet Nam," he explained. Romney was saying very little publicly on the subject last week, preferring, between field briefings, to conduct a political campaign of sorts. ("Get that hut in the background," he instructed a press aide at one stop, as he lifted a little girl in his arms.) President Thieu and Ambassador Bunker received Romney. U.S. military...
Parrot meanwhile, has exchanged places with fellow first-line wing Bob Fred Both are left-hand shots, but Weiland now feels that parrot will be the better of the two on the right because of his buck handling meneverability...
George Romney barnstorms through Chicago, climaxing a whirlwind hand-shaking tour ("Hi, there, buddy, I'm running for President"; "Oh, yeah? Who are you?") with an emotional convention plea. Departs after he is informed he is at the wrong convention. President Johnson, visibly moved that anyone bothered to make a stirring speech, chooses Romney as his running mate...
...savings and loan associations, which had been strapped for mortgage funds a year earlier, were deluged with deposits. Thus housing became the year's comeback industry, climbing from an annual rate of 1,111,000 private starts in January to 140% of that level. On the other hand, retail sales-which normally account for two-thirds of what consumers spend.-rose barely faster than consumer prices, which jumped 21%, on top of a 3% gain...