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...four states and 39 electoral votes for the Dixiecrats, posing a real threat to Harry Truman. Mindful of the defections to Thurmond, Vice President Hubert Humphrey has for months been playing Johnson's John Alden to Southern Democratic Gov ernors-most recently and notably with Georgia's Lester Maddox-to preclude any repetition of 1948 or, for that matter, of 1964. So far, Lurleen is the only Southern Governor openly wedded to Wallace. As Virginia's Mills Godwin puts it: "I see no evidence that his methods or his candidacy offer a really effective means of protest...
...example, Phil Harris, Bobby Darin and Alan King were all in Las Vegas but not on the Show. So Dana had to settle for the likes of Abbe Lane, Jerry Lester, Frankie Laine and Helen O'Connell. Dana himself was hardly the picture of authority, and just barely held the rambling shows together...
...Cook County Hospital, Dr. Irving M. Bush and Dr. J. Lester Wilkey have assembled a color TV cystoscope from standard, commercially available components. Its power of inner vision depends on a system of lenses and a cable of glass fibers, less than one-quarter of an inch in thickness, inserted through the urethra, to carry the intense light from a 1 00,000-ft. -candle source and to carry back an image of what is reflected from the bladder wall. Using local and spinal anesthesia, the Cook County doctors have been able to see: the inflamed areas in cystitis...
Sanders described his successor, Lester Maddox as "very moderate and a pleasant surprise" on the race issue. He warned, however, that a change in Maddox's position might come this summer if there are demonstrations or racial conflicts in Atlanta...
...first load of fill into the St. Lawrence River off Montreal. All that seemed a long time ago as a 19-year-old Canadian Army cadet last week sprinted into the Place des Nations amphitheater and, before 5,250 invited dignitaries, handed a blazing torch to Prime Minister Lester Pearson. Grinning, Pearson tipped the flame toward a gas jet in a canister, and a fire flickered up-to burn night and day during the six-month life of Expo...