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...Bayonne waterfront. To back Hughes, New Jersey's Democrats have plenty of money-and they intend to spend it. Hughes's campaign expenses will come to $1,000,000 or more. From Washington have come Interior Secretary Stewart Udall and Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg to stump for Hughes, and from Massachusetts came Teddy Kennedy to spread the family charm...
...time being Kenyatta remains restricted to his three-acre plot at Gatundu. disqualified from holding political office because of his conviction. But he promises that as soon as he is free to move he will stump the colony. ("My message will be one of unity.") The British hint that they will be watching closely before deciding whether or not to restore Kenyatta's eligibility to hold political office. But since they have promised Kenya independence-possibly by next summer-their control over the Burning Spear is at best temporary. British Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod himself has said: "As time...
...early to enter the Naval Academy as a skinny (6 ft. 3 in., 115 lb.) youngster of 16. He finished 27th in his 1927 class, then plunged wholeheartedly into naval aviation. His rise to high rank was steady, up to a third star as deputy to Pacific Commander Felix Stump in 1957. Then he abruptly asked for a reduction to two-star rank so that he could command a carrier division and meet an old tradition that an admiral's flag is not really earned unless it is flown...
...seen at every hand. Goal posts stand far out in the desert for the benefit of passing nomads who have taken up soccer. Thieves now get their right hands chopped off in the public square only after the third offense. A doctor first administers a local anesthetic, bandages the stump, and then rushes the convict off by ambulance to a hospital, where, like all Saudis, he gets free medical care. The penalty for adultery is still death by stoning, but there has not been an execution in a decade; and the code prescribes that the victim first be rendered unconscious...
...that he had learned at least one lesson from the 1960 campaign failure of his close friend Richard Nixon. Mitchell coolly declined a challenge for face-to-face debates with his Democratic opponent, former Judge Richard J. Hughes. While Jim Mitchell was sure he could match Hughes on the stump, he thought it silly to do anything that might build up his lesser-known opponent. "I am going to organize my own campaign to meet my own purposes," said Mitchell...