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Smith, who seeks the Democratic nomination in the fourth congressional district, will oppose the incumbent, John Bell Williams. He conceded that his chances for nomination are almost nil, since the vast majority of the voting population, which is white, "would vote against...
This year, a new non-Communist opposition is playing a significant part in the elections. Its chances of upsetting the government are nil, but a strong showing would stir up Congress policies and present alternatives for the future...
...January since the Depression--is that workers are now exhausting their unemployment benefits. Half a million have already received their last check. Before the half-year is out, 1,500,000 will be without benefits, and the prospects for a quick upturn in the economy are practically nil. In his State of the Union message, President Kennedy admitted that the slump may last through...
...actual class work itself went, the amount of personal contact in connection with the kind of work I was doing, that I had with professors and instructors was pracitically nil... In fact ... when I have been looking for a job ... it's been very embarrassing, because you just can't say to these people, at Harvard you just don't get to know the instructors very well. And you might say, well, this guy is just out of it and antisocial, and you just listen to reasons why he is unable to supply us with the names of three people...
Senator Styles Bridges finds himself challenged by the chairman of the Dartmouth History Department, Herbert W. Hill. Although Hill is running as a liberal and his chances of election are nil, even Loeb's Manchester Union admits that he is a good campaigner. Bridges' wife provided a classic issue of example of innuendo when she told a women's group that "Kennedy is not a communist--at least I don't think he's a communist--but his record is soft." Hill called the statement "the most treasonable utterance of the campaign" and he Senator found it wise to give...