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After the dramatic withdrawal of Nelson Rockefeller as a G.O.P. presidential candidate (TIME, Jan. 4), Nixon had scrapped his plans for an active invasion of New Hampshire, relied on an intensive telephone campaign and the well-knit efforts of the state's dominant Republican organization to put him across. Kennedy, on the other hand, had waged an all-out campaign, powered by his family, his own indefatigable youthfulness, and the strength and cunning of the Kennedy organization, which, months before, had virtually taken over the fledgling New Hampshire Democratic machine...
...much money spent on gilding. I hate gilding," was one of his rare judgments. Each night while George was in his library with the Times or his stamp collection, May dutifully played an educational card game with the children or read to them and made them knit scarves to stop their fidgets...
...section on Latin America, the committee noted that upper class domination in this area "is now seriously threatened." A fast growing middle class is "increasingly rebellious against the upper class, traditionally a tightly-knit oligarchy of large landowners, big merchants, capitalists, and high ranking officers of the ecclesiastical and military hierarchies...
Still, most of the non-believers are people who have never sampled the wares. The game has a tremendous fascination for anyone who likes fast action, suspense, and stiff competition. Those who have never joined the close-knit community of devoted soccer fans in the first few hours of a fall weekend have missed one of the finest moments Harvard athletics has to offer...
Bookish Football. Robert Anderson had an old-fashioned upbringing in a close-knit, pious, hard-working family in Johnson County. Texas, just south of Fort Worth. His father (who died fortnight ago at 81) was a storekeeper in the little town of Burleson, later took up farming on a 120-acre tract in Godley. Stricken at three with an attack of polio that left him with a limp, Bob grew up a bookish, unathletic lad, but he did his farm chores right along with the four other Anderson children. "He was serious-minded," his mother recalls. "From the time...