Word: keys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...racial reconciliation are being clouded rather than clarified. The times call for a high order of statesmanship; yet Nixon comes on like an artful dodger and Humphrey like an artless bungler. Whether the two can shake off those images in the seven weeks before Election Day is becoming the key question of a disappointing campaign...
...improved Harvard's situation. It is now more than half over and the results have been numbing, to say the least. Three of the fourteen lettermen (John Tyson, Dan Wilson, and Will Stargel), all seniors, all vital to a successful season, are suddenly out of the picture. Four other key players--Richie Szaro, John Ignacio, Fritz Reed, and Tony Smith--will miss the entire practice campaign, and conceivably much of the regular season. Many minor injuries to inconspicuous players, routinely bother-some in previous years, take on great significance when compounded with the loss of so many expected starters...
...earned the number two spot among the four original candidates. The defensive front five--ends Pete Hall and Steve Ranere, tackles Steve Zebal and Lonny Kaplan,and middle guard Alex Maclean--and the linebacking with lettermen John Emery and Gerry Marino remain strong and may well be the key to any Harvard victories...
Nonetheless, Humphrey professed to see nothing but hopeful portents. "A good number of the dissidents have come back," he said. "I think we'll have a pretty good united front." Indeed, some key supporters of Eugene McCarthy, including former Democratic National Chairman Stephen Mitchell and California Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh, were back in the fold and others were expected to return in time. One who will not: Louisiana's Governor John McKeithen, who announced that he will not back Humphrey, thus in effect ceding his state to Wallace. McCarthy himself remained silent. Said a Democrat who had earlier...
...business between them, the U.S. could now go talk to the National Liberation Front about the rest of the war. That the U.S. is not eager to do: the Front controls neither infiltration nor force levels nor the Demilitarized Zone nor the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Hanoi holds the key to all of those. And negotiations with the N.L.F. would create major problems for the South Vietnamese government...