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...that the South will necessarily go with a Southerner." Would he concede Texas to President Johnson? "I don't concede anybody anything. I'm a Republican who's won in a Democratic state, and mister, Democrats don't know what a dogfight is till they do something like that." Did he consider Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. a rival for the G.O.P. nomination? "I consider anybody who has visited with General Eisenhower in the last few weeks a potential candidate...
...Only till Midnight. Ironically, Communism's grudging Christmas present to West Berlin seems to have originated in the toy factory of Nikita Khrushchev, who resembles Santa Claus only in shape. Chilled by the reception East Germans gave him last summer at the Wall, and aware that the spirit of détente had not yet thawed the frozen pivotal point in East-West relations, Khrushchev talked East German Boss Walter Ulbricht into opening negotiations for the Christmas visits...
Toward Compromise. Each minister was mindful of the men whose needs-and whose votes-he had to consider: Europe's stubborn, stolid farmers. Germany's farmers are high-cost operators. They still mostly use horse-drawn power and till tiny, tired plots that have been handed down and subdivided over the generations. Bonn's farm-strong Christian Democratic Party insists on protecting them with some of the world's steepest subsidies and tariffs. France, which has half of the Common Market's arable land and its largest and most efficient farms, wants to eliminate...
...tone is unfailingly pedestrian. When he misses his appointed train, Hardy dutifully writes to explain his absence, as on Oct. 12, 1892: "I have attended Tennyson's funeral-and find I cannot get back very well tonight-so I will wait till tomorrow-returning about the usual time-though possibly by the Salisbury train, about twenty minutes later than the 6:13. George Meredith was there-also Henry James, Huxley, etc." When Hardy becomes more solicitous, it is almost always to forestall a visit by his wife: "Though I should like to see you in London I feel...
This second defeat, one short of Harvard's total for the last five seasons, gives the Crimson a 1-2 record with a long vacation to recover from the shock. But the Jan. 11 meet at Dartmouth should be a little easier, so wait till next year...