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...platform has ended--but because it had to--and his troubles are by no means over yet. Every plank is a vacuous patching together of the divergent shreds within the Republican Party, and Nixon has not chosen to reinforce it with something like Al Smith's famous "wet telegram...
Shaky Knees. Next day, the Kennedys' one big miscalculation handed Johnson the big chance. As a routine matter, the Kennedy company had sent off a batch of wires to delegations, requesting an audience for Jack. Johnson replied with a telegram suggesting a joint caucus of the Texas and Massachusetts delegations and a debate on major issues. Kennedy declined to mix the two and assumed that the debate was off, but Lyndon and his boys, as well as a regiment of newsmen and TV contingents, crowded into the Biltmore's ballroom for what was now billed as something like...
...education move as rapidly as they did in 1900. President Eliot received a letter on Lincoln's Birthday, requesting use of the Harvard campus for 1,500 Cuban teachers. A special meeting of the Corporation considered the proposal February 13, and a few days later Eliot dispatched the simple telegram, "Yes--Eliot...
...speculation was that Newberg had been caught in unauthorized negotiations with American Motors' President George Romney about a Chrysler-Rambler merger. Romney promptly denied it. Chrysler Stockholder and Chief Gadfly Sol Dann (TIME, May 2) hinted to reporters about shady dealings within the company, fired off a telegram to the Chrysler directors requesting them to "name the certain corporate policies upon which they differed, and specify which of these men was attempting to correct or remove any acts of corruption." Chrysler's reply: "No comment...
...Last Temptation of Christ on the Index of forbidden books. In that novel, due for fall publication in the U.S., Judas emerges as a hero since he helps Christ to fulfill his mission of redeeming mankind. At the time of the Vatican edict, Kazantzakis fired off a telegram to the Committee of the Index containing a sentence from Tertullian: "Ad tuum, Domine, tribunal, appello" ("At your tribunal, Lord, I make my appeal...