Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Without Enthusiasm. Recent polls give Humphrey a slight lead in Michigan, Minnesota and Missouri. But most of the polls show him trailing Nixon. In state after state, the Humphrey machine is in disrepair, or nonexistent. In Texas, Humphrey does not even have a campaign manager. The New York situation is so chaotic that Humphrey operatives are bypassing the state organization to set up an independent-citizens' committee. In California, Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh is serving as honorary co-chairman of the Humphrey campaign, but amazingly enough, is also endorsing a write-in effort in behalf of McCarthy. The effort...
...Minh trail often resembles a network of busy truck roads, the Communists still use elephants to haul their supplies. Not long ago, an American pilot sighted an elephant carrying rockets. His strafing run killed the animal and set off a series of secondary explosions. There was a slight dilemma on his return to base: should he put the event down as an enemy killed in action or as an enemy vehicle destroyed...
...typical fashion, Shaw went to the front early. By the mile mark he was joined by captain Doug Hardin, and the two of them held a slight lead over the top U-Mass trio and Providence pacesetter Marty Robb. Moving smoothly in contrasting running styles, Shaw and Hardin gradually cased away to a thirtyyard lead at the three-mile point...
Deloach's body, clad only in shorts and with slight cuts about the head and abdomen, was found hanging by a telephone cable from an eave of the Joshua Barney School, one of several Negro schools closed in the Mobile area this year when Federal courts ordered a speed-up in integration...
Mercifully, tradition demands only a small number of picks, those games which involve one or more Ivy League teams. Here then, with some slight justification, are the week's guesses...