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Those Republicans who had long been demanding tougher action on Cuba and who made it an important theme of their campaign, seemed likely to gain. Prominent among these were Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart and Pennsylvania's Senatorial Candidate James Van Zandt. Such experienced world affairs hands as California's Gubernatorial Candidate Richard Nixon also would benefit...
Politics '62 (ABC, 1:30-2 p.m.). Campaigns in Connecticut, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and Nebraska. Interviewed are: former HEW Secretary Abraham Ribicoff, candidate for U.S. Senator from Connecticut; Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, up for re-election in Illinois; Senator Homer Capehart, running for re-election in Indiana; Robert A. Taft Jr., candidate for Congressman at large in Ohio; Michael Di Salle, running for re-election as Governor of Ohio; former Interior Secretary Fred Seaton, running for Governor in Nebraska...
...tactic can be dangerous. In Indiana, for example, Republican Senator Homer Capehart advocated a direct U.S. invasion of Cuba, hastily backed away when it seemed to be losing him votes. Yet the Democrats are clearly embarrassed by the foreign policy issue, prefer to discuss domestic matters whenever possible. If Cuba must be talked about, they argue, it should be talked about in the vaguest of terms. Urges the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee in a memo to party candidates: "Be for a course of action on Cuba, but a course of action short of invasion...
...drive in the third game. Sportswriters snickered; Hiller shrugged. Next day, with the bases loaded in the seventh inning, Hiller clouted a hanging curve deep into Yankee Stadium's rightfield stands for the first series grand slam ever hit by a National Leaguer. The homer tied the series at two games each-only to be untied next time around by New York's Tom Tresh, 24, everyone's choice for Rookie-of-the-Year and the only Yankee who batted over .300. Son of a onetime Chicago White Sox catcher, Leftfielder Tresh came...
...Kemper has vastly improved his school. With 436 acres and 139 buildings, it has more students than half the nation's four-year colleges. Its 80,000-volume Oliver Wendell Holmes Library tops three-fifths of all college libraries. Its Addison Gallery of American Art, with works from Homer to Hopper, would do a sizable city proud. Its 85-man faculty is superior to most college faculties, and some teachers get paid more-up to $12,000, plus fringe benefits that add as much...