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...landed in Chicago for the big day, Richard Nixon ran slam-bang into one of the biggest, loudest crowds that ever greeted a candidate. Perspiring throngs clawed and pushed at him. Nixon placards rose and spun in the humid air, confetti cascaded down from hotel rooms, and the traffic din from Lake Shore Drive fell to a whisper under the tumult in the streets. Squeezing through the tight throngs, Nixon found safety at last in his Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel suite. But it was a safety of sorts. Beneath the clamor and the cheers lay a snorting Republican rebellion that threatened...
Strengthening Grasp. Nixon's first move had the impact of a grand-slam homer in the last of the ninth. He called a press conference. A throng of newsmen, TV people and photographers crushed into a long, narrow room at the Conrad Hilton and fired shotgun questions. With each answer Nixon deftly assumed his strengthening grasp of leadership...
...Grand Slam...
...golfer, one who could be expected to handle even the "Road Hole." Last week in the British Open, Palmer and the Road Hole fought a tense four-day duel. Palmer mastered the famed 17th-but not until after it had cost him his chance for golfing's grand slam...
...grand slam of the nation's most prestigious schools was without precedent in modern days, probably in history. No statesman or soldier-not George Marshall, Douglas MacArthur, nor Dwight Eisenhower-has won all three honors in a single year, though many have managed it over the years. No one was more surprised at the coincidence than the schools them selves; like Macy's and Gimbels, they do not tell each other the names of their nominees. The only one who knew was Banker Black himself, and he had been keeping his secret in the best academic tradition ever...