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...belabored the Eisenhower Administration for failure of moral leadership in civil rights; Nixon named Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate Lyndon Johnson as a man who voted against and still opposes adequate civil rights legislation.* Kennedy called for economic reform, blasting the Administration's hardmoney, high-interest-rate policies, accused Ike of turning down needed aid for depressed areas. He defended his celebrated claim that "17 million Americans go to bed hungry" by shifting to Secretary of Agriculture Benson's statement that 25 million Americans have inadequate diets. A tax increase in the winter of 1961, Kennedy said, "under present...
...Hampshire: Rock-ribbed Republicans cast more primary votes for Nixon in 1960 than for Ike...
Pennsylvania Dutch are suspicious of Kennedy's Catholicism, and are registering in large numbers for the first time since 1928. The many Poles and Lithuanians warmly remember Dick Nixon's tough talk to Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow and his triumphal entry into Warsaw. Nixon ran better than Ike did in the primaries. Kennedy collected a large write-in vote, drew enthusiastic crowds while campaigning. Outlook: even, with Kennedy gaining...
Eyewitness to History (CBS), which takes up the top news story of each week and analyzes it in respectable detail, is a good example of the sort of first-rate service television can perform. After beginning two weeks ago with an effective contrast of Ike's and Khrushchev's approaches to the U.N., the show last week turned to the Congo, using material that CBS crews had gone to Africa to get. As mpressive as the show itself is its young analyst-narrator, Charles Kuralt, 25, who wrote a human interest column for the Charlotte, N.C. News before...
...stroke; in Denver. Daughter of Swedish immigrants, she was born in Boone, Iowa, at 16 married Meat Packer John Doud (who died in 1951). A witty woman with a tart tongue, she moved to Denver in 1904, lived and died in the same house the Douds bought then. To Ike she was "Min"-after Mrs. Andy Gump in the comic strip: she got the nickname from Ike and her two daughters, who would kiddingly chorus, "Oh, Min!" when John Doud, in search of missing apparel, called, "Oh, Mother!" to his wife. She lived in the White House from the time...