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Pablum & Tranquilizers. Bobby rapidly developed his own style, blending hard proposals, double-edged wit and a tough platform manner. The Johnson dropout deprived him of his prime target, but Hubert Humphrey soon provided another. Kennedy seized on H.H.H.'s "politics of joy" slogan to offer his own contrast: "If you want to be filled with Pablum and tranquilizers," he said in Detroit's John F. Kennedy Square last week, "then you should vote for some other candidate." Again: "Let's not have tired answers. If you see a small black child starving to death in the Mississippi Delta...
...students deliberately revived battle cries of historic French revolutionists. "A has les ordonnances [Down with decrees]," proclaimed posters on the Sorbonne's two main doors. The message gibed at the De Gaulle government's minor resort to government by decree last year, but the phrase echoed the slogan of the insurrection that toppled King Charles X from the French throne in 1830, after he issued four suppressive decrees. Taking the name from the general assembly that led to the French Revolution of 1789, students summoned an "estates general" of students and professors to meet in Paris this week...
...Humphrey and Kennedy paid courtesy calls on the United Auto Workers' convention on successive days. Humphrey talked in folksy terms about his own political status and the Viet Nam negotiations. Kennedy demanded a foreign policy of "no more Viet Nams," jabbed at Humphrey's "politics of joy" slogan by saying that, considering poverty and other problems, the U.S. "is not a joyous and happy country." Humphrey seemed to get a slightly warmer reception than Kennedy, but the U.A.W. is officially remaining neutral. At week's end in Omaha, Humphrey and Kennedy again shared an audience-Democratic notables...
...older brother Louis, 43, became the Democratic congressional nominee in Cleveland's 21st District by topping a 14-man field, with 28,680 votes to his nearest rival's 15,110. Lou Stokes, who will face Negro Republican Charles P. Lucas in the fall, adopted the campaign slogan: "Another Stokes for the Same Folks...
Surgeon Thomas LaFarge also brought moments of wit to The Lampoon with his slogan "Forget Vietnam! See The Meat-Cleaver Man!" and his description and catalogue of mutilations that can spare American youth "the indignities of conscription." Similarly revivifying was the poem inspired by Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" which Dr. La Farge dedicated to the CRIMSON...