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...might have bargained his soul for them. As the campaign hit the homestretch and the kids flocked to Brown's camp, out ringing doorbells, mailing flyers, answering phones-they couldn't do enough-Tunney worried, and for the first time Brown seemed to be for real. By mid-May Brown was three points ahead in the public opinion polls. Brown could win-if. No one knew just what it took, but there was no question that Tunney had to do something. He did, all right...
After six months of rift rumors, the breakup has finally become official: come mid-May, Chet Huntley leaves David Brinlcley after a 13½ -year association that made them the No. 1 news team in the country. Huntley is headed for Marlboro Country, something called Big Sky Inc. -"a $13 million resort and leisure-time enterprise"-in Montana. Good night, David...
...volatile Dow average really reflects the overall trend of U.S. stock prices. The Dow, which is composed of 30 blue-chip stocks (from Allied Chemical to Woolworth), has made the stock market look sicker than it really has been during its seven-month slide. From its 1969 peak in mid-May, the D-J average has fallen 17%; the decline has been only 13%, or 24% less for the broadly based New York Stock Exchange composite average of all 1,287 listed companies and Standard & Poor's 500-stock average. One reason for the disparity is that the fortunes...
There was, of course, the ROTC negotiating Committee which was established in April to set specific guidelines for any future ROTC contracts with the Defense Department. Its job was short and the Committee had disappeared by mid-May...
...kingdom soon begins to buzz with rumors of his illness or even death. In late 1965 and early 1966, Mao faded from view for six months, only to reappear suddenly and launch his disruptive Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. This year the Chairman's last public appearance occurred in mid-May -more than four months ago-and speculation about his health has begun to mount once again...