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...Pennsylvania, Colorado, California, Texas, Louisiana, Michigan, Delaware and New Jersey. Tired when he started, he made as many as nine speeches a day. Advance arrangements were sketchy, crowds at some major stops thin or indifferent. In Philadelphia, the sparse crowd gave a bigger hand to Comedian Joey Bishop, a home-town boy who was traveling with Humphrey, than it gave to the candidate. Hecklers turned up at most stops, toting anti-Viet Nam placards ("SHHHAME," said one) and catcalling. Humphrey gamely quipped that "boo" means "I'm for you" in the Sioux language, "but somehow I don't sense...
...Court significantly broadened the qualifications three years ago. Now a man need only possess beliefs that prompt his objection to all wars and that "occupy the same place in his life as the belief in a traditional deity." But even if he knows how to raise that argument legally, home-town board members may well pay no attention because they think that such a test is much too easy...
...flawlessly turned portrait of a social cripple who understood somehow that, running, he was more alive than he would be standing still. It was also, says an old friend of Updike's, "a picture of John, if he had been a better basketball player and had married a home-town girl...
...rare that non-political news gets lead headlines. Says Ian Menzies, managing editor of the Morning Globe,"Tom (Winship) would fill the whole front page with politics if he could." There remain, to be sure, vestiges of the old home-town paper. Pictures of by-standers comforting the victims of car accidents still get put on page two. Violent headlines are the rule, even for routine items. But the grosser forms of parochialism have been removed...
When the Globewas established in 1872 it was a home-town paper in what Menzies calls "the most competitive news town since the word go." Boston, until recently, has had more papers per capita than any city in the United States. In the 1880's and '90's, six papers competed with the Globe;advertisers, by threatening to switch to other papers, wieled crippling power. If rain was predicted for Easter, advertisers forbade the Globeto print the weather on Good Fritay for fear that sales would slip. The Globetad no choice but to comply...