Word: senatore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Senator McCarthy's success in New Hampshire will deal a serious, perhaps fatal, blow to the radical anti-war movement at Harvard and across the country.
They are confident that the Senator will lose the Democratic nomination to Johnson and so "prove" that, even with popular support, an anti-war candidate cannot beat the system.
A Republican write-in for Senator Eugene J. McCarthy came in third behind Rockefeller with about 3 per cent of the GOP vote. Gov. George Romney, who withdrew from the 1968 presidential sweepstakes two weeks ago, lagged in a poor fourth with about 2 per cent.
The Senator could not say more than four or five consecutive words, for every phrase was interrupted by cries of "Victory!" and chants of "We want Gene!"
Senator Robert Kennedy (D.N.Y.), issued a statement that he deeply regretted the attacks. He noted that "the same king of charges were made in 1960 against President Kennedy, and the present charges are as baseless now as those were then."