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...camel and its thirst-resistance are older than the Sphinx-and almost as durable. Well into the modern age of science, men accepted the notion that the evil-tempered animal could store a two-week supply of water in its humpor in a great, cistern-like stomach. The hump theory was the first to be discarded as so much humph. What the camel carries on its back is a reserve of fatty tissue to be consumed when the rest of the camel runs out of fuel. The story about the parched Bedouin who slaughtered his favorite camel to drink...
Barry, well aware of the enormous boost his candidacy had gotten, said confidently, "This just means that I have more delegates than I thought I did-maybe 690, something along in there. But I'd like a few more; then I'd say I was over the hump." Later Goldwater was even more confident. "Scranton just hadn't been moving," he said. "He needed a big break, and the only state where he could possibly get it would be Illinois. We had expected to get 40 of those delegates. We got 48. Three others we know...
...race relations. In the South, Negros and whites share a religion and a culture--they've been there together for 14 generations. In the North, on the other hand, there's no unity; whites are afraid of the Negroes. We used to think that once we got over the hump of legal segregation...
...Over the Hump. The President took the G.O.P.'s criticism in full stride. "You know," he quipped, "you'd think if there was anyone in the world who would be pleased with a lower budget, it would be Republicans." The fact is that Johnson, in the face of built-in budgetary increases that come to $3 billion a year, was making the first real effort in years to reverse the spending trend. He set forth a philosophy that should indeed have pleased the Republicans. "Our fiscal program," he declared, "will shift emphasis sharply from expanding federal expenditures...
...including the building up of the Army from eleven flabby divisions to 16 combat-ready units. Second, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's cost-reduction program is expected to trim hundreds of millions from the next budget. Finally, as one Pentagon official put it, "we are over the hump in the funding of the large missile systems...