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Nixon has also maintained recently that the likeliest prospect for peace is to persuade Moscow to bring pressure on Hanoi for a diplomatic settlement. Such leverage, says Nixon, may be the "key to peace"-though Russia of late has shown no inclination whatever to insert the key in the lock. Exactly what inducements Nixon might offer at the bargaining table are unstated. It could hardly be otherwise. Even if the status of the war next year could be predicted, it would be foolish, his aides point out, to get locked into a bargaining position now. "I don't have...
...EUGENE J. MCCARTHY, Senator from Minnesota, presidential candidate from out of nowhere, who confounded everybody by scoring heavily in the New Hampshire voting and demonstrating that the divisions within the Democratic Party were indeed deep.> ROBERT F. KENNEDY, Senator from New York, all along the likeliest man to challenge the President, but inhibited by fear that to join the fray would sunder the party, expose him to charges of opportunism, and wreck his hopes of assuming the office that his brother held so briefly...
...first showed signs of trouble by coughing up sputum and running a fever. X rays revealed a shadow, indicating what doctors call "infiltrates" in the lungs. One possible cause was a pulmonary embolism (a traveling blood clot). But the doctors at Groote Schuur Hospital concluded that the likeliest cause was pneumonia, and they attacked vigorously with heroic doses of penicillin...
When the New York World Journal Tribune died unexpectedly last May, the New York Times and the New York Daily News seemed the likeliest candidates to put out an afternoon paper. They had the printing capacity, the know-how, and the urge to expand...
...question is: When will Bobby run? Most pundits figure on 1972 as the likeliest date, but not Shannon. Johnson could lose in 1968, forcing Bobby to challenge a well-entrenched Republican in 1972, or he could die in office, leaving Hubert Humphrey in his place with a powerful claim on the next nomination. As Shannon makes clear, the heir apparent may find considerable difficulty in trying to bring about the Kennedy Restoration...