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...handiwork of Kennedy Man Chester Bowles, was a far-out liberal manifesto containing a tough civil rights plank that enraged the South. Then, ditching the liberals, Kennedy tried to placate the Southerners and give his ticket a conservative aura by picking Texas' Lyndon Johnson as his running mate...
Profit & Loss. Nixon's running mate will probably be husky, handsome Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and widely known because of his televised battles with Soviet U.N. delegates. A New England patrician (TIME cover, Aug. 11, 1958), Lodge would have little farm-belt appeal, but he would add plenty of foreign policy luster to the ticket if the election fell in a time of international crisis...
...Jack Kennedy fidgeted in his chair, nervously fingered his lips and ears, chatted with his neighbor, or worked at scraping a wad of gum off his right shoe. When the time came to accept the Democratic presidential nomination, he graciously saluted the vanquished one by one-Running Mate Lyndon Johnson, Adlai Stevenson, Stuart Symington, Hubert Humphrey, also scrappy Paul Butler, retiring chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and the absent Harry Truman. Then Jack Kennedy plunged into his speech, proved with considerable eloquence that he had three things uppermost in his mind: his religion, his opponent, and a call...
...consent, 3) faulty canonical form. Impediments include underage (brides must be 14, grooms 16), impotence (but not sterility), disparity of worship (a Catholic cannot, without dispensation, validly marry a person who has not been baptized), abduction (a valid ground only for brides), crime (such as murdering one's mate to marry another), consanguinity, though in certain cases dispensation can be granted, "public honesty" (a man living with a concubine cannot marry into her family, and vice versa...
...liberal than Humphrey, was coming up fast. One of the Senate's few bachelors, handsome "Scoop" Jackson (so called because he delivered newspapers as a boy) was a Congressman for twelve years before he got elected to the Senate in 1952. If Kennedy picks him as his running mate, the choice will be a sign that Jack expects to make national defense a major campaign issue: Jackson is a defense specialist, a frequent and responsible critic of Administration defense programs...