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...fireworks. Nixon, who stumped for nearly 100 Republicans in 32 states, drummed away at the President's Viet Nam policy and his "rubber stamp" Congress, but neither pitch particularly roused his audiences. Vice President Hubert Humphrey encountered such apathy everywhere he went that he finally blurted to a listless Manhattan audience: "Get with it, will you? I'm going to get you some Geritol." At a traditional "bean feed" rally in St. Paul's 12,000-seat auditorium, Hubert managed to draw only 2,000-and faced the embarrassing prospect of a Republican gubernatorial victory...
Metcalf has little money for advertising. A burly onetime varsity boxer at Stanford University, he was a four-term Congressman when he won his Senate seat in 1960. Though a somewhat listless campaigner, Metcalf stands to benefit from the fact that Babcock, who has two years to go in his four-year term as Governor, promised in 1964 to serve it out. The Senator also invokes his congressional experience, while tagging Babcock as a political novice beholden to business interests-though Metcalf himself relies heavily on Big Labor's support. Above all, Metcalf is counting on help from Senate...
...probably heard of Chinese students writing poetry about love rather than revolution and grumbling about the manual jobs they had to take after graduation from college. He knew of Party officials throughout the country who were unhappy and listless in their jobs because of the monopoly on the higher Party positions held by "Old Guard" communists -- those who had been with the Party for 30 and 40 years. Mao also knew that once he died the ambitious Old Guard members under him would clash in a long and devisive fight for the succession...
...Listless Talk. While Rockefeller was busily dispelling the tired-blood stigma that had bedeviled him, O'Connor was mired in a dull, perfunctory campaign. Stumping upstate, the Democratic candidate arrived at Endicott (pop. 19,-000) too late in the afternoon to greet most of the workers leaving the town's large IBM plant. That night he wandered around shopping centers vainly trying to find hands to shake. Next day he showed up for a speech in the Chenango Valley town of Norwich (pop. 9,200), found fewer than 20 people waiting for him at a local restaurant. Returning...
...generally listless. "If you think about it, the immorality of it grabs you by the throat, and you want to run, to get it out of your system," says a white not long out of Europe. "But then it's a new day, and the hibiscus blazes on your stoop, the housemaid is singing a township song as she hangs out the clothes, and your children are tanner than ever and growing like trees. The anguish of South Africa seems a long way away...