Word: nixon
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...hand to meet Harold Macmillan's gleaming Comet 4 jet airliner at Washington's MATS Air Terminal were Vice President Richard Nixon and Acting Secretary of State Christian Herter (who sat waiting on a metal stool to ease the pain of his arthritis). They hustled the British party to the White House behind screaming sirens. Next morning Macmillan and President Eisenhower drove to Walter Reed Army Hospital, where Secretary of State John Foster Dulles had been pacing his sunroom floor awaiting their arrival...
...crisis for campus politicos. When there is a red-white-and-blue button to wear, a sticker to put in the windows, a speech to hear, a leaflet to hand out, then students flock to the clubs. Often, new groups are formed. Dean Watson fully expects a Students for Nixon, for Kennedy, and for whoever else strikes the student fancy, to appear in the next year...
...rituals in three more states (an encounter with Oregon's candidate-heckling "Cavemen," a Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Boise, Idaho, a prop-stop in Butte, Mont.) on a routine three-day weekend of campaigning away from Washington. Said a top politician, as Kennedy departed: "He'll murder Nixon."* Behind the Front. Being unchallenged front runner, Kennedy is clearly the man his Democratic rivals must stop. Last week his lieutenants were only belatedly invited to a conference of Midwest Democratic chieftains in Milwaukee. (Top aide Ted Sorensen and brother Robert Kennedy† showed up.) While the conference accomplished little...
...Latest count last week from the oddsmaking California poll: in California Kennedy leads Nixon (49% to 39%, with 12% undecided) by a wider margin than Adlai Stevenson (48% to 43%, with 9% undecided...
...another careful choice of terms last week, Vice President Nixon called for conservatism without "stand-pattism." Said Nixon to a Los Angeles Republican luncheon: "I don't think we could make a greater mistake than to say that because some people don't like being called conservative the Republican Party should stop being conservative. We should be proud of what we believe...