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...shambles. The campaign management, directed by onetime Senator William Knowland, was at best unsteady. The schedule underwent constant change. The candidate rarely indulged in more than the most perfunctory chitchat with reporters. Barry shrouded himself in an impenetrable diffidence, acting for all the world like a reluctant dragon slayer. In his public appearances he hardly ever exhibited that electric quality which, for example, helped him hold the 1960 Republican National Convention in thrall. He seemed to stay on the defensive, endlessly trying to answer his enemies' charges that he wanted to sell TVA for a dollar, that he would...
...sense of justice that demands the death penalty for the slayer of an assassin is strange and bewildering. It must appear to the world that we had little regard for our late President when we demand the supreme penalty from the man who desired to avenge him, however mad and ill-advised...
...anyone who blames America for the tragedy which struck in Dallas, I say you libel our people and purposely misread our politics. It was not a mind nurtured by American philosophy that turned to violence," he said. Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused slayer of President Kennedy, described himself as a Marxist, although he was American...
Jackie Mason is a 32-year-old rabbi who has given up the temple and now tells jokes with a message. Too often the message scrapes through, but the humor does not. He is a dedicated slayer of cliche philosophies. "Don't change horses in midstream," he scoffs. "Did you ever take two horses into the middle of a stream? That is stupid in itself. But I tried it, and you know, the second one was better." Somebody digs. Mason gets top bookings...
Died. Cayetano Ordonez, 57, one of Spain's outstanding matadors in the 1920s and the inspiration for Ernest Hemingway's stalwart hero, Pedro Romero, in The Sun Also Rises, who sired a family of five bullfighting sons, including Bull Slayer Numero Una Antonio Ordonez, whose suspenseful competition with Luis Miguel Dominguin was chronicled by late Aficionado Hemingway in The Dangerous Summer; of pneumonia; in Madrid...