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TOSSUPS: Florida, Michigan, Missouri, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Total electoral votes...
...Nixon has won the overwhelming support of the nation's press. By the end of last week, 483 daily papers with a total circulation of 20.7 million had come out for him editorially; this week, LIFE endorses him. Humphrey, by contrast, has been endorsed by 93 newspapers with a circulation of 3.9 million...
Fedayeen Power. Even those highly tentative talks have stirred the revolutionary feelings of the commandos, or fedayeen, who are adamantly opposed to dealings of any sort with Israel. They wield political power in Jor dan far out of proportion to their numbers, which probably total no more than 5,000 active terrorists. They have the fervent support of Jordan's 700,000 displaced Palestinians, who owe no particular allegiance to the Hashemite Hussein, and the open sympathy of many officers in the Jordanian army...
...Cabinet. It is obvious that Hussein will somehow either have to cow the fedayeen or bow entirely to their will, forgoing any chance of peace with Israel. Last week the largest fedayeen organization, El Fatah, for the first time called a press conference. Its spokesman declared its total rejection of any political settlement in the Middle East. As Hussein returns to his capital this week, the King must be only too well aware that his grandfather, King Abdullah, was cut down by an extremist's bullet during a visit to Jerusalem...
...single performances in track and field history. In 1935, Jesse Owens set a long-jump mark of 26 ft. 8¾ in. that stood for 25 years. Since 1960, Boston and Ter-Ovanesyan have between them broken the record six times, but managed to increase it by a grand total of only 8½ in. Then came Beamon. He charged down the runway and powered off the board, hands and arms flapping like a giant awkward bird. His body jackknifed, his legs spread-eagled before he slammed into the pit. When the Scoreboard flashed the result, the crowd gasped with...