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Lang's punt from the Princeton ten-yard line was partially blocked by Crimson defensive end Mike McHugh. The ball was rolling dead at the Tiger 33, when Harvard's Mike Murr tried to scoop it up and gain a few more yards. Murr never got control of the ball, and Princeton recovered...
...shifted their fire from inflation to unemployment. Among the presidential hopefuls, Hubert Humphrey declaims: "More than five million Americans are today out of work.* How will they and their families benefit with no paychecks with which to buy food, clothing and shelter even at stabilized prices?" Washington Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson adds: "Having reluctantly become an economic activist, the President should go all the way and support tax-cutting and job-creating programs that will put the economy into high gear and drastically cut unemployment...
...TIME could hardly have been more correct on any political prediction than the one on "Scoop" Jackson in which it was suggested that he, if nominated, would of all candidates be "most likely to trigger a revolt, and hence a fourth party on the Democratic left...
...would find most difficult to defeat. In a July poll of Democratic leaders, he comes in a surprising second to Muskie, and leads Hubert Humphrey, Teddy Kennedy and George McGovern. Says another Democratic hopeful, Indiana's Birch Bayh: "There is a lot of support around the country for Scoop." When Hughes bowed out, he confessed: "I didn't take Jackson seriously, but I take him very seriously...
...unemployment is substantial at Cape Kennedy. Jackson believes, with good reason, that his advocacy of price and wage controls, plus his support of the aerospace industry and his pro-labor voting record, will give him an advantage. Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff contends that if the voting were held today, "Scoop would win the Florida primary...