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Company Man. Humphrey must also construct an efficient campaign organization. His personal staff consists mostly of Minnesotans with little expertise in national politics. He tried to attract Lawrence O'Brien, but lost him to Kennedy; there is no Humphrey cadre of veteran organizers to match Kennedy's. Humphrey himself, although he was a leading architect of Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party in the 1940s, has never been considered a particularly astute tactician on the national level. In 1956, he openly sought the vice-presidential nomination, ran a humiliating third behind Estes Kefauver and John Kennedy. In 1960, Kennedy...
Allied intelligence doubted that the Communists, who by allied count have lost 71,000 men since Tet, could muster a second offensive on the same devastating scale. But just in case they tried, allied troops were put on the alert throughout South Viet Nam. City dwellers were asked to stockpile food and fuel, lock their doors and stay home. Saigon police threw a cordon around the capital to block arms infiltration. The U.S. 25th Infantry Division was deployed around Tan Son Nhut airport and the allied headquarters there, and B-52s bombed the Communists' likely approaches to Saigon...
...York's Aqueduct Race Track, he made up four lengths in the stretch to win the $113,500 Wood Memorial-the same race Native Dancer won en route to the 1953 Kentucky Derby. Oh, oh. That 1953 Derby was the only race Native Dancer ever lost; knocked off stride as he rounded the first turn, he lost by a head to a 26-1 long shot named Dark Star and owned by Captain Harry Guggenheim...
After three years in the minors, during which he lost more games (30) than he won (28) but struck out 496 bat ters in 467 innings, Koosman won a spot in the Mets' rotation this spring. In his first game, he shut out the Los Angeles Dodgers, 4-0; in his second, he whiffed Willie Mays with the bases loaded ("It was no great thrill") and blanked the San Francisco Giants, 3-0. "I'll challenge any hitter around," says Jerry, "as long as my fastball holds up and I have a curve that can keep them...
...Princeton should provide our stiffest challenge to date," said coach Bo Andersen. "They lost by only one second to Cornell and were dead-even with them through the first 1200 meters. We have to beat Princeton decisively if we're going to have any chance against Cornell next week...