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...Goldwater has generally backed them up with votes on the Senate floor. Now in 1963, when Goldwater must be rated the top threat to John F. Kennedy, a look at his public speeches and voting record in three key areas gives some concrete insight into a man who within thirteen months may be President of the United States...
...THIRTEEN months before the 1964 U.S. presidential election, there is a bubbling ferment in political circles around the U.S. Who can win? Who's for-and against-whom? Which way is the trend moving? What will the issues be? While they are thinking and talking privately about these questions, political leaders-true to form at this stage of the game-are saying little in public about what they really think. To get at what is in the political minds, TIME set out three weeks ago on a reporting process that is uniquely suited to our kind of journalism...
...mild "blighty"-a wound that would send him back to England uncrippled but with a gold stripe on his sleeve. Loom of Youth told only what all but the most naive schoolmasters already knew-that homosexuality was not uncommon in a system that "herded together monastically children of thirteen and men of eighteen for two-thirds of the year." Nevertheless, it shocked the sensibilities of a nation brought up on The Brushwood Boy and Tom Brown's School Days...
...Thirteen colleges, including Harvard, have taken an initial step in standardizing the mass of application forms which confront a student applying to college...
...Thirteen centuries later, Philip II defeated French forces at the battle of San Quentin. By that victory he turned the tide to bring the Spanish Empire to its highest glory. Because it took place on Lorenzo's feast day, Philip decided to put up a monument to the saint, the empire and God - built on the plan of a. gigantic gridiron...