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...fluttered through the air like autumn leaves. Now came the inevitable pictures of politicians with Indians-or factory workers, or coal miners, or bathing beauties. Now the members of Congress, grinding toward adjournment, looked fretfully toward their home fronts. And now the President of the U.S. took to the stump in his capacity as party leader...
...Send the Marines." In Washington, Capehart has been as pugnacious about Cuba as any member of the Senate. As a member of the Latin American subcommittee of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, he has advocated direct U.S. intervention in Cuba. On the stump back home, he urges a naval blockade against Communist arms in the Caribbean, then adds: "If a blockade doesn't work, send in the Marines...
Blood & Starvation. In 1775, a year of lull before the years of Indian raids and counterraids began again, the average settler (perhaps, like Daniel Boone, a "long hunter" turned family man) lived in "a stump-dotted clearing of two or three acres in a one-room, earthen-floored cabin which had just taken the place of last year's half-faced camp." His possessions were what he had made himself or carried on his back from civilization. If he had had a cow, he had butchered her that winter to save his family from starving. He could count...
...dogged campaign ing and colorful personality of the man who beat him : State Representative John Pillsbury, 44, of Manchester. Well-known in the legislature for his deep-lunged, shattering oratory, Big John (6 ft. 3 in., 225 Ibs. ) quit his job as a power-company executive to stump the state. He encouraged Powell's overconfidence by starting his drive in low key. then blistered Powell in the final weeks for his "one-man rule," his "personal machine" and his "negative thinking." He claimed that Powell had short-changed education, but had spent "$30.000 to change the color...
...Stump the Stars (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). Premiere of still another TV charade game. Pat Harrington Jr. is the host. Jerry Lewis and Jayne Mansfield are guests...