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...whether or not the system by which we elect Presidents needs reforming. The election's graphic illustration of how popular and electoral votes may be disparate has troubled many; such varied political figures as the Senate Majority Leader, Mike Mansfield, Sen. Javits, and Norman Thomas, not to mention Strom Thurmond, have urged extinction of the electoral troglodyte. And even fiercely partisan Kennedy supporters feel qualms about rolling in the New Frontier on a push-cart designed to slow down democratic traffic...
...religion was ever thought to have been decisive, this was the state. Republicans had privately counted on it. Yet Kennedy squeaked through by 10,000. Sen. Strom Thurmond, a Democrat who still has not supported the national ticket, won without opposition...
...Democrats are certain to retain control of the Senate for at least two years. It is mathematically possible but politically inconceivable for the G.O.P. to take over. Ten of the Senate seats are Southern and automatically Democratic (Georgia's Richard Russell and South Carolina's Strom Thurmond are running unopposed). In six other states-Alaska, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Oklahoma-the Democratic candidates are so far ahead that only a Nixon landslide could beat them. The Republicans are shoo-in favorites in two states- New Hampshire and Nebraska. The real fights are for these 16 slots...
...hateful civil rights plank. In Tallahassee, Farris Bryant, the Democratic candidate for Governor (and, in effect, Governor-elect) reached the same split decision, gave Jack Kennedy a grudging nod while deploring the "repugnant" civil rights program. In Washington, the grey eminence of diehard Dixiecracy. South Carolina's Strom Thurmond announced that he could stomach neither the "obnoxious and punitive" platform nor Candidate Kennedy. ¶During the farewells on his departure from the United Nations, Henry Cabot Lodge received a cable from Rome informing him that the Knights of Maltat had awarded him their Grand Cross of Merit...
...week, two months and 1,739 rancorous pages of testimony later, Strauss finally did win the committee's approval-by a cliffhanging vote of 9-8 (the squeaking majority came from the six committee Republicans, plus Democrats John Pastore of Rhode Island, Frank Lausche of Ohio and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina...