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...cold day." The response, on the whole, was fairly predictable: in the "backyard" of Minnesota's Humphrey, Kennedy could do little more than try to get himself known. (Humphrey himself was bedded down with a cold, missed most of his scheduled weekend foray, sent his wife Muriel to stump...
...Kubitschek ran in a three-way race against weak candidates; Lott is up against ex-Schoolteacher Janio Quadros, who in a few years rose from obscurity to become the new-broom governor of Sao Paulo, spark of Brazil's industrial boom. Quadros kicks off his shoes on the stump, spills ashes on his shirt and works the crowd to frenzy. His program is honest government, slashing bureaucracy, building roads and power plants, and turning private enterprise loose for progress. He describes his own nationalism as "grownup, vaccinated and old enough to vote." Quadros' main handicap: the streak...
...valentine-decorated first-grade room of Washington Elementary School in Berkeley, Calif., Teacher Jeanne Gibson last week tested her tots on some questions that would stump most pupils long after they learned to read...
Scattershot Blasts. The Douglas committee's majority report, packed with economist's gobbledygook and lofty theory, was hardly suited for the political stump. But the Democratic Digest gave party spokesmen a free-swinging indictment of the Administration for use in handy quotation. Economic growth "under Eisenhower-Nixon has been miserably slow," trumpeted the Digest. What gains the country did achieve "have heavily favored the moneylenders as compared with farmers, small businessmen and workers." Republican "budget-first fiscal policies" have callously ignored the aged, the infirm, the unemployed, the farmers, the jammed schools and the blighted cities...
...inclination and declaration, old Bill Hulet is close kin to such folk heroes as Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyan and Mike Fink. And when there is boasting to be done, Bill will talk as loud and as long as any ring-tailed roarer that ever lived. "Born under a stump, suckled on sow bear milk and raised in jail," he proclaims. "I know every root in these parts, every huckleberry meadow, bee tree, strand of swamp grass and skunk-cabbage patch. To hunt bears, you've got to be as tough as a good old bear dog. Well...