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Minnesota's Hubert Horatio Humphrey. He has patched together his state's Democratic-Farmer-Labor organization after its stunning primary defeat by Estes Kefauver, is now edging back toward the center of the national stage. St. Paul's Representative Eugene McCarthy (no kin to Joe) has begun...
Credentials: Big (6 ft., 195 Ibs.), warm and friendly ("Just call me Frank"), a corn-shucking orator whose words cascade like bursts of fireworks, he adds a rich helping of religion to every speech ("If a man's religion and politics don't mix, there is something wrong...
Academic Giggles. At Oxford University Truman donned a scarlet, orange and grey gown, plumped a round velvet academic cap over his grey hair, stood before 1,200 in Christopher Wren's 17th century Sheldonian Theatre to receive his degree. Public Orator T. F. Higham, in stately Latin (Truman was...
White House Aide Howard Pyle, still smarting from the pummeling he drew from the A.F.L.-C.I.O. for proclaiming that "the right to suffer is one of the joys of a free economy" (TIME, June 4), lost control of his tongue again. Speaking to some Republican ladies in Salisbury, Md., Pyle...
Rome. There is real danger of a Communist victory in the Holy City. In 1952 the Christian Democrats were actually outpolled by the allied Socialist-Communist slate, but saved by the electoral law. Under fat, fumbling Mayor Salvatore Rebecchini, Rome has been plagued by tram strikes, power and water shortages...