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From that November afternoon when he made it clear that the torch of continuity was safe in his hands to that November night nearly a year later when he won the biggest election triumph in history, it was his year-his to act in, his to mold, his to dominate...
...always been my special number," Brunette Maria Elena Torch once said, and so it has always seemed. She met Architect Edward Durell Stone on a flight to Paris on July 10, 1953, ten days later accepted his proposal. Thereafter Stone's genius shone with a special brilliance, and they called the wind that fanned the flame Maria. For her he built one of his famed grillework facades on a $250,000 Manhattan town house, "just as," she explained, "the Shah Jahan did the Taj Mahal in India for his wife." But the Taj Mahal, of course, is a tomb...
...jets traced the five-ringed Olympic symbol in the sky. Onto the rust-colored track at Tokyo's National Stadium trotted Yoshinori Sakai, a 19-year-old student who was born near Hiroshima just hours after the atomic bomb fell on the city. Carrying aloft the blazing Olympic torch, Sakai bounded up a flight of 179 steps, thrust it into a cauldron of oil. Flames leapt up, and halfway around the world, in Manhattan and Mexico City, sports fans watched the dramatic moment on TV-relayed with marvelous clarity by the satellite Syncom III, orbiting 22,000 miles above...
...remember him, but those who pause for breath after climbing a flight of steps recall Jesse Owens, the Negro track-and-field star whose four gold medals left his Aryan hosts at the post during the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Owens is 51 now, a Chicago marketing consultant, but, torch in hand, he puffed a few Manhattan blocks in track shorts to set the pace for 3,500 relay runners in a 3,100-mile cross-country "Run for the Money," to raise $1,000,000 for the 1964 U.S. Olympic team...
...Mandate to Begin. The President spoke for 35 minutes, reading alternately from his text and from the Speech View prompters fastened to the podium at eye level. He urged Americans to "rededicate ourselves to keeping burning the golden torch of promise which John Kennedy set aflame." He reiterated the Democratic themes of "peace, prosperity and preparedness," promised "compassion and love to the old, the sick and the hungry," asked for "a mandate to begin" the march toward "the Great Society." He struck at Barry Goldwater by declaring that the coming campaign would be a contest "between those who welcome...