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...lead the expected rout, the G.O.P. picked-over two more conservative possibles-Moderate Mark Andrews, 38, a Fargo farmer and Republican national committeeman. The Democrats had Dr. John Hove, 47, English professor at North Dakota State University and a down-the-line Kennedy...
...Yorker, in a parody of the Saturday Evening Post's "inside" story of the Cuban crisis signed by L. L. Case, ended up spoofing the Administration more. The New Yorker traces "The Inner Inside Story of the Canadian Crisis'' as told by "Stewart Dawk and Charles Hove." The Administration has evidence that an innocent-looking ski lodge in the Laurentians "was in fact a 'snow cannon' emplacement capable of pelting New York and New England with more than 150,000 deadly, hardpacked snowballs!" The newly elected junior Senator from Massachusetts eloquently argues the "soft line...
Born. To Sir Laurence Kerr Olivier, 55, thrice-wed knight of the British theater; and Joan Plowright, 33, ragdoll-eyed English actress (A Taste of Honey): their second child, first daughter; in Hove, Sussex. Name: Tamsin Agnes Margaret...
Although the hawks were originally in the majority, according to the Post, opinions finally merged, and everybody joined Dean Rusk as a "dawk or a hove."* The group formed a "rolling consensus" built around McNamara's plan of "maintaining options" by blockading Cuba, leaving the door open for invasion or bombing if the blockade failed to get rid of the missiles. Who was the only person who did not roll with the consensus? Why, Adlai Stevenson, of course...
...Hove presumably rhymes with love. In a burlesque entitled "Last Drippings from the Great Certified Leak," the New York Times's senior columnist Arthur Krock, never wittier or more sardonic, suggests the word might first have been pronounced when McNamara predicted that a Soviet destroyer would "heave in sight." But ExComm's presiding officer, called "Himself," corrects him with "The word is hove." Otherwise, Krock turns ExComm into MadAv. "Let's melt this ball of wax and move the hardware from the shelf," suggests Krock's McNamara. "Suppose I start batting out the fungoes." Sorenson...