Word: kefauveritis
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Thus it was no accident that the campaign focused hard and sharp last week in the farm belt. Both presidential candidates put their hands to the plow in Iowa (see below). Both vice-presidential candidates found time to stop off in the farm areas. Dick Nixon sidestepped agricultural technicalities to...
Wired TIME Correspondent Serrell Hillman from the Kefauver cavalcade last week :
The variety and vigor, the kaleidoscope of the American landscape, and the people on it fascinate reporters-when we have time to think. But to Candidate Kefauver, one state is like another, one meeting the same as the next, one hand no different from the previous 5,000. Already, the...
The Marx Brotherhood. Plodding on through the Northern farm states and into the Northwest, Kefauver worked hard at flushing out the voters, but was sublimely oblivious to the fact that his caravan seemed to be in the hands of the anarchical Marx brothers. Nothing seemed to go right. Suitcases were...
Such are the confusions and complications surrounding Kefauver that reporters hesitate to say how the man is doing, even though on the surface he appears to be something of a bust. Much of the time, crowds have been small, tepid, granite-faced; there has been a notable scarcity of bands...