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...Carolina's voters held to their traditionally independent path, gave Sanford a 77,000-plus majority and a clear mandate for moderation as the state's next Governor. Sanford, manager of the late, liberal Senator Kerr Scott's successful campaign in 1954, had painstakingly built the smoothest county-by-county organization seen in three decades. Endorsed by most of the state's newspapers, he appealed to city folk and labor unions as a protector of the public schools ("We need massive intelligence, not massive resistance"), attracted Piedmont bankers and textile manufacturers with his go-getting industrial...
...VENTURI, 28 (6 ft., 170 Ibs.), has the smoothest swing of the younger players, is a wonderfully talented shotmaker whose game is still marred by inexplicable runs of bad play (he lost the Masters mostly because of a dismal six-over-par 42 on the back nine of the opening round). Son of a ship chandlery salesman in San Francisco, Venturi began playing golf at the age of nine, was a senior at San Jose State College when he came under the benevolent care of Millionaire Lincoln-Mercury Dealer Ed Lowery. A golf nut, Lowery not only bankrolled Venturi...
Obviously, such activity is not done without planning and organization, and Jack Kennedy has the smoothest-running, widest-ranging, most efficient personal organization in the Democratic Party today. It has men, money and brains; his opponents claim it is the most savvy and hard-nosed group put together in U.S. politics since Tom Dewey and Herb Brownell swept Taft out of the G.O.P. race...
Woodworking Works. Disaffection with the times is the common ingredient. Predictably, the writer who has mixed the smoothest cup of brine is The New Yorker's John Cheever. With his oft-repeated visions of suburbia under a lowering sky, the author is obviously following Faulkner's lead by creating a kind of Yoknapatawpha, Conn. The fact that there are no Snopeses and not even very much crab grass in the commuters' heaven adds wry emphasis to Cheever's reiterated question. "Is this all there is?" ask his characters, who have everything. In The Country Husband...
Since then, Barbirolli's steady success has become uncomfortable history to his old critics. In darkest wartime he took over Manchester's draft-shattered Halle Orchestra, built it from 23 demoralized players into one of the smoothest groups in the world. The Halle played close to the front lines during the Battle of the Bulge, has toured incessantly since, giving a staggering 250 concerts a year...