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...weeks ago, Pundit Walter Lippmann suggested that Kennedy run for Governor of New York in 1966.But Lippmann did not check his facts; Bobby did, and discovered that the state requires legal residence of at least five years for any gubernatorial candidate...
Since it takes longer to poll than to pundit, not until this week did the pollsters begin weighing in on the meaning of the New Hampshire presidential primary...
When a new political pundit offered his wares to the U.S. press 3½ years ago, the Denver Post was one of the first papers to sign up. But last week the Post dropped Columnist Barry Goldwater from its editorial page. Reason: Goldwater is an announced candidate for the Republican nomination for President. It would hardly be fair to other candidates, explained the Post, to go on running the Goldwater column...
Liberals generally rate fairly low: Pundit Norman Cousins has a three-minute McL-C, Dean Acheson a coefficient of ten minutes, but McLandress gives President Kennedy a rating of 29 minutes. Elizabeth Taylor, Nikita Khrushchev and David Susskind all have the same coefficient: three minutes...
RICHARD AUSTEN BUTLER, a parliamentary pundit once observed, "always looks as if he will be the next Prime Minister-until it seems the throne may actually be vacant." Butler has been deputy to all three postwar Tory Prime Ministers-Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan -and after the 1956 Suez debacle had every expectation of succeeding Eden at 10 Downing Street. When the party picked Macmillan instead, "Rab" Butler, though bitterly humiliated, said bravely: "Well, it is something to have been almost Prime Minister...