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...this European, Senator Barry Goldwater appears not as a fascist ogre, but as perhaps the last hope of the American people to pull their country out of its headlong dive into that oblivion where everybody and everything, races, parties and states, shall be mongrelized into a drab grey uniformity, watched over, of course, by Big Daddy in the White House...
Where were they? Headed for Wilmington? Leaving Cleveland? Circling Miami? Such was the pace of Republican William Scranton's headlong campaign for the G.O.P. presidential nomination that in the minds of aides and newsmen traveling with him in his chartered Electra, places and events blurred...
...University of Minnesota: baseball's college world series, for the third time, beating the University of Missouri 5-1 in the final game, on the four-hit pitching of Joe Pollock and the headlong base-running of Second Baseman Dewey Markus, who then signed a contract with the Chicago Cubs...
With that declaration of belief and practical politics-meant to appeal to moderates both within and without the Republican Party-Pennsylvania's Governor William Warren Scranton, 46, threw himself headlong into the G.O.P. contest for this year's presidential nomination. In so doing, he injected a rush of excitement into what was becoming a dreary procession toward the certain selection of Conservative Barry Goldwater...
...foot apart. The mind fills the gaps without noticing them. Moreover, the separate screens enable the film makers-Francis Thompson and Alexander Hammid -to use them in multiple combinations, now showing three aspects of one scene, now three separate scenes, now a three-dimensional, three-screen headlong ride down a plunging highway that kneads the stomach far more than the rollercoaster ride in the first Cinerama...