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Meaningful Mood. The "other guy" was on the road last week for his first major stump speech since the nomination, and he seemed to be pursuing the something's-wrong theme with some success. Barry Goldwater's forum was a bunting-draped platform at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield, where a shirt-sleeved crowd of 12,000 turned out for "Republican Day." For 32 minutes, Goldwater spoke under a broiling sun. But he was cooled repeatedly by applause and chants of "Yea, Barry...
Sounds & Sights. While alive, the brains' EEG charts show a continuous flow of electrical signals, and Dr. White can communicate with them. When he rings a bell near the stump of a brain's auditory nerve, he gets an electrical reaction. When a needle carrying weak electric current touches the stump of the optic nerve, the visual part of the brain responds...
...boyish good looks, will be responsible for whipping dele gates into a suitable state of partisan enthusiasm and wooing televiewers to the party cause. Actually, Republicans can expect little by way of breathless oratory from him. His delivery is cool, crisp and unemotional, whether on the political stump or talking to a group of his fellow Baptist laymen on the subject of "The Erosion of the Lordship of Christ in the Protestant Church." But Hatfield will give convention voice to the far reaches of the western U.S. And no one doubts that the welltailored, button-down appeal of middle-reading...
...stump during the campaign, Robles was no match for Arias and his fiery oratory. But he strongly supported the Chiari government's demands for revision of the canal treaty with the U.S. and pledged to "rescue for our country the commerce of the Canal Zone, which should have been rightfully ours since 1903." In the slums and backlands, he promised to provide unemployment compensation and some moderate reforms in housing and schools. Repeatedly, he professed independence of the country's powerful ruling elite: "I'm not an oligarch, and not responsible to them." That remains...
Nikita Khrushchev kept pushing his brand of consumer Communism. "We did not make a revolution so that we should live worse," he observed on the stump in Hungary. "Some people say, 'You already have one pair of trousers, and they cover everything trousers should.' To this I reply that trousers cover the sinful body, but that is not enough. Perhaps one pair of trousers suffices in the tropics. It doesn't in our country: something might freeze...