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...without anyone specific in mind," says Gammarelli. A shrewd papal handicapper, he felt that in case of a deadlock the compromise candidate might be an old customer of his, Venice's Cardinal Roncalli, and cut the garments for the large man with him in mind. Bonaventura's hunch was right: when Pope John XXIII appeared on the balcony overlooking St. Peter's Square to give his first public blessing, he was dressed in the perfectly fitting white soutane Gammarelli had made...
...that "determine in the crudest sense whether we live or die." So argued English Novelist Sir Charles Percy Snow last week as he delivered Harvard University's prestigious Godkin Lectures on public affairs.* Snow's plea was for more scientists in government, thus minimizing the role of hunch and political intuition...
...have a good hunch that a lot of the people who are "heckling" Jack Kennedy about his church never take time to darken the doors of their...
Westerner (NBC) doffs its Stetson to Freud as Brian Keith, borrowing John Wayne's hunch and squint, brawls his way through some crisply directed traumas. Last week Keith rescued a girl from a sadist, only to have her refuse to go along with the rescuer because she liked being slapped around after...
...personal third campaign, he has a captious eye on Hyannisport as well: "The choice is between the lesser of two evils, anyway," he says. "Some people claim Nixon is trying to sell the country, and Kennedy is trying to buy it. At the Los Angeles convention I had a hunch about how things were going right from the start, when the minister delivered the invocation and said, 'A little child shall lead them.' You know, Kennedy had to have Lyndon Johnson on the ticket with him because he can't get into Washington without an adult...