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...have told friends and supporters who are urging me to run that I would not oppose Lyndon Johnson under any foreseeable circumstances," said Kennedy, and such supporters as Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, who had been urging him to take the plunge, quickly hailed his decision as "right." The latest Gallup poll among Democrats shows the President leading Kennedy nationally by 52% to 40%, and a full 71% preferring Johnson to McCarthy...
...only real challenger to Nixon and the only candidate who can offer G.O.P. moderates a voice at the convention. In the opinion of many party professionals, he is also the only Republican with any chance of defeating Lyndon Johnson next November. Though he trails Nixon in the latest Gallup poll among Republicans, 55% to 41%, he has picked up ten points in only two months. Among G.O.P. Senators and Representatives, Rocky is rated the strongest Republican possibility, leading Nixon by a count of 53.1% to 37.7% in a Congressional Quarterly Survey. In California, Don Muchmore's State Poll shows...
That influence is rapidly expanding. Institutional investors now account for at least 35% of the trading on the New York Stock Exchange, and the proportion will be up to 50% by the mid-1970s. From 1955 through 1966-the latest date for which totals are available-the market value of stocks owned by institutions rose tremendously: from $9 billion to $19 billion for insurance companies, $12 billion to $37 billion for mutual funds, and from $6 billion to $38 billion for pension funds...
...MBTA's third and latest plan to move the Bennett Street transit facility and expedite construction of the Kennedy Library has been sharply criticized by the chairman of the Milton Board of Selectmen as "uneconomic and unwise...
...ANNIHILATION," announces the latest Lampoon, "is the intriguing game of intercontinental devastation designed to delight both adults and children." Any adult or child who manages to survive the 36-page assault is more likely to be left devastated than delighted. The Lampoon attempts to obliterate war with more bombs than are necessary, and is thereby guilty of the kind of overkill it hopes to lampoon. The Overkill Number is overworked, overwritten, overwrought...