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...publicly made up its mind about the candidates, took a census of those papers that have, and reported that the President's newspaper endorsements outnumbered Goldwater's by more than six to one. Among Barry's most recent backers: the Boise, Idaho, Daily Statesman, which is traditionally Republican, and the Arizona Tribune of Phoenix-the only Negro newspaper in the state...
Loftier Level. In his loftier-level strategy talks with Humphrey, Johnson emphasized that he plans to devote most of his time to his White House job, playing the part of fulltime statesman. Only on key occasions, such as his Labor Day address this week in Detroit's Cadillac Square, would the President hit the campaign route...
...venerated Puerto Rican statesman, Muñoz studied law at Washington's Georgetown University, returned to Puerto Rico in 1926, and has been fighting the island's cause ever since. At that time, Puerto Rico was little more than a sugar barony controlled by a few large U.S. companies; per capita income was a pitiable $120 a year. In 1938, Muñoz formed his Popular Democratic Party, four years later as senate president organized Operation Bootstrap, and was soon luring mainland industry to Puerto Rico. With generous tax incentives and cheap, plentiful labor, company after company found...
Soon the literary critics were in full cry. A New Statesman pundit called Dr. No "the nastiest book" he had ever read, full of "two-dimensional sex longings." Breathing even more heavily, a professor in the New Republic discovered mythic overtones and likened poor Bond to Perseus and St. George. Ian Fleming could find only contempt for anyone who tried to read anything into Bond. He quite frankly wrote for money, and did not like his hero very much, although, he admitted, "I admire his efficiency and his way with blondes...
...life of Rhodes Scholar Winston J. Churchill Jr. (no kin) from North Wales, Pa., one of the many students who have studied, over the years, at Oxford University under the scholarship program set up before his death in 1902 by the South African financier-statesman Cecil Rhodes. Repeat...