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...which I devoted a dozen years of my life, is historically and constitutionally tragic." Johnson was referring to the fact that the Senate had never actually voted on the merits of the nomination, only on the procedural question of giving it formal consideration. All but forgotten was another loser in the affair: Homer Thornberry, who was to have replaced Fortas as an Associate Justice on the court. Since Fortas will now keep his own seat, there is now no room for Thornberry; his nomination lies in a legal limbo...
...Tigers were awed, and they admitted it. Loser McLain praised Gibson for "the best pitching performance I've ever seen," and Detroit Manager Mayo Smith sighed: "When a pitcher is like that, the hitters are just not going to get him." But the Tigers were not about to give up. "We'll be back tomorrow," promised Manager Smith. And back they were, pounding four Cardinal pitchers for 13 hits and three home runs, staking Lefthander Mickey Lolich to an 8-1 victory that evened up the Series at one game apiece. Two days later, in Detroit, the Cards...
What kept the Social Democrats upright more than anything else was Russia's invasion of Czechoslovakia, which encouraged countless voters to stick with a known quantity. The chief loser was Sweden's tiny Communist Party, which normally inherits any protest votes from the Social Democrats' left. This time it was the Communists who were on the wrong end of the protest vote. Communist Leader Carl-Henrik Hermansson roundly denounced the Soviet invasion and was denounced by Moscow radio in turn as "the chatterbox husband of a millionairess"-his wife is the daughter of a Göteborg...
...Loser's Cause. In the death house of the New Jersey state prison in Trenton, Smith, a high school dropout, has ambitiously educated himself. An enrollee in many college correspondence courses, he also subscribes to publications as diverse as National Review and the Peking Review. He is obviously intelligent, and his prose, though sometimes wooden, is sturdy. What his brief suffers from most is-as he himself says-the fact that "I am by nature a transcendentally unemotional, matter-of-fact individual, the antithesis of what a man testifying in his own behalf, with his life at stake, should...
...century ago, Sam Tilden made light of his electoral loss by saying: "I shall receive from posterity the credit of having been elected to the highest position in the gift of the people, without any of the cares and responsibilities of the office." It is doubtful if a loser in one of today's superheated campaigns would be so graceful-or indeed whether a minority President like Adams or Hayes could deal with Congress or the world on so minuscule a mandate. Both Harry Truman in 1948 (with 49.6% of the popular vote) and John Kennedy...