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...candidates for the 1962 elections: one whose student co-ordinator is president of the club, the other whose student co-ordinator is a vice-president. Endicott Peabody '42, Harvard's last football All-American, was unopposed for the gubernatorial endorsement, and Attorney General Edward J. McCormack, Jr. won the nod for U.S. Senate over Edward M. Kennedy '54 by a vote of 23 to 0, 13 abstaining...
...outfield is still a little questionable, but some of the positions have been filled. Bill Gilmor will patrol the center field area, and converted first sacker Tom Stephenson will start in right. As of last night Shepard still was undecided on a left fielder, but the nod will probably go to former infielder Curly Combs. Fred Karp and Andy Shea are possibilities, however...
...Organization. At Salan's signal, pied-noir demonstrators rush from their homes shouting "De Gaulle to the gallows!" and hammer out on dishpans the deafening rhythm of "Al-gé-rie Fran-caise!" Salan's nod is sufficient to explode plastic bombs* under the bed of a Gaullist security chief in Oran or on the doorstep of a police inspector in Algiers. After each deed, Salan's men boast: "The S.A.O. strikes when it wants, how it wants, where it wants...
...Angeles, when L.B.J. was plainly losing out to J.F.K., Connally held a desperation press conference-wherein the claim was made that Kennedy was suffering from Addison's disease, was being kept alive only by massive doses of cortisone, and could not realistically receive the party's nod. Even though this was just a normal campaign maneuver, it understandably did not endear Connally to Kennedy. But when Johnson became Kennedy's Vice President. Johnson's man Connally was in line for a high federal post...
...population explosion in dolls this year is the best argument yet for birth control at the toy bench. They kiss, they suck thumbs, they wet, and of course talk, laugh, cry, wink, blink and nod. One specimen has three shifting faces: one with measles, one in a convalescent state, and one in smiling health...