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...Real Question. Lyndon Johnson, at this point, was actually feeling at home in the campaign for the first time. He was in his kind of situation?a situation of maneuver. And although the odds were staggeringly against him, he wheeled in relaxed fashion from meeting to luncheon to television show to cocktail party, preaching his doctrine of the right of the best man to win. "Everybody talks about who's going to be nominated" said he, "when the real question should be who ought to be nominated...
Dudley House, opened for the first time for Summer School students, offer luncheon facilities, locker space, and the TV-equipped common room. Added tidbits include billiards, chess, checkers, and ping-pong. Monday through Friday from...
Alvin Rodecker, musing over the luncheon at Le Pavilion, turned cheerfully to his wife. "Holy cow!" he said. "That was expensive. But it was worth it. We're really celebrating." At that instant the plummeting dumbbell cracked his skull. Doctors performed emergency surgery, but Rodecker never regained consciousness, and 24 hours later he was dead...
...move. His preconvention windup was aimed in two directions: 1) picking up stray, overlooked delegates in the smaller states, and 2) trying by every kind of push and pressure to topple the big, still uncommitted states that can put him across. Items: ¶ At a National Democratic Club luncheon in Manhattan, Kennedy and his hosts, New York's Democratic leaders, were all smiles and compliments. One after another, the bigwigs pledged their support. "His strength," said Tammany's Carmine De Sapio, "has continued to magnify itself." And former Governor Averell Harriman (involved in a backstage battle with...
...Manhattan's projected Herbert Hoover Building, new national headquarters of Boys' Clubs of America. Both Hoovers are on its national board, Herbert Hoover its chairman for the past 25 years. Day before the meeting, ex-President Hoover popped up by surprise at a lively Stanford University alumni luncheon in Manhattan. Hoover, a member of Stanford's first graduating class (A.B., '95), noted that none of the speakers had mentioned what sheer fun it was to be a university student. Recalling that "I had to be tutored for three months before I could even get into Stanford...