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...campaign days are 18 hours long; the toughest of them begin at 7 a.m. and end at 3 a.m. the next day, only to begin again at 7. When Nixon was hit by the flu in September (TIME, Oct. 8), he refused to slow down, ordered his doctor to stoke him with antibiotics and vitamin pills and spray his throat with cortisone. Although he eats little on campaign tours (a light breakfast, a sandwich on the road, a snack before his evening speech, an attempt at dinner afterward), he actually gained two pounds on his first tour, has maintained...
...place was a brightly painted new one: "The Stevenson Presidential Special." The switch was symbolic, for the Democratic candidate, with less than three weeks to go before E-Day, had gotten about as much mileage as possible out of Joe Smith, well knew that it was time to stoke the campaign with all the burning issues he could find if he was ever going to reach the White House on time...
...disaster went as follows. The Elis' number one man, Ned Vare, easily defeated Brock Stoke 6 and 5. The Elis' number two man, Pete Nisselson, came from behind to win one up over Lou Klein. The Elis' number five man, Franz Dolt, routed Roger Fleischman 8 and 7. The Elis' number six man, Jim McCullough, routed Dave Beadie 8 and 6. And the Elis' number seven man, Bob Clark, downed Al Steinert...
...Communists have hinted repeatedly that if they fail to get what they want by negotiation and political pressure, they could always stoke up U.S. and allied fears of war with some show of force." [As if on cue, the Reds unleashed a 3,000-shell, one-day bombardment of Quemoy, the heaviest barrage in 16 months...
...reunification." Reunification is the prime political issue in Germany today, but it is not a popular one. The unity movement is not a swelling of public opinion, but a political device to convince the Western powers of the great German demand for reunification and at the same time to stoke up that very pressure among the Germans themselves. Calling a group "The People's Movement for Reunification" cannot hide the fact that there is no such movement in Germany today...