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Survival Power. The victory was worth every dollar to Kennedy. It was his first real test as a candidate this year, and a loss might well have crippled him. The win would have been sweeter, of course, had it been against his prime opponent, Hubert Humphrey, but Humphrey's name will be on no presidential primary ballots this year. On the same day that Kennedy carried Indiana, however, a Kennedy slate of delegates defeated pro-Humphrey candidates with surprising ease in the District of Columbia primary-a contest that Humphrey, with better organizational work, might have won. Kennedy will...
Ormsby Gore turned up frequently on Hyannis Port weekends, at Bobby's Hickory Hill seminars and often in White House inner sanctums. He was beside Kennedy in the Situation Room when the President won his terms on the limited test-ban treaty, urged Kennedy to publish photographic proof of the Cuban missile buildup and persuaded him, over Navy objections, to order a delay in intercepting Russian ships, thereby avoiding a direct confrontation with the Soviets. "It was a freak of history," he says of his influence then. "Those years proved to be the most rewarding of my life." They...
...Court has made it extremely difficult for such persons to win a libel suit. To avoid stifling the free-speech right to criticize government leaders, the court since 1964 has required proof that the alleged libeler had "malice" or "reckless disregard" for the truth. Just two weeks ago, the test became stiffer still. Beyond "reckless disregard," the court added the necessity of proving that the libeler "entertained serious doubt" about the truth of his accusation...
...Saturday evening, and in a van parked behind the barns at Chur chill Downs, Laboratory Technician James Chinn performed his postrace chore of testing urine specimens from 18 horses - the winners of all nine races run at the Louisville track that day, plus one other horse from each race, chosen by lot. When he added his test chemicals to the tubes, one specimen turned blue and then orange - the sign that some offending drug was present...
After tomorrow's meet, the track team has only one other major test before the end of the school year--the IC4A Championships in New York on May 31 and June...