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Humphrey also suffered from some bizarre campaign scheduling. During a two-day swing through California, he spent fully four hours at conservative Pepperdine College in Los Angeles. "If we had gone to U.C.L.A.," explained an aide, "we would have been in for uncontrollable rudeness or total indifference." Thus he was spared the heckling of student militants, but he was also spared exposure to crowds of voters. He expended two valuable hours at Leisure World, a housing complex for the elderly in Seal Beach, where Comedian Jimmy Durante introduced him as "Hoi-but Humphrey." The residents were undoubtedly pleased when...
Among those who have left for good, the young often speak in total disillusionment. "O.K., it's clear. We see how things are," says a 26-year-old Czechoslovak mathematician. "We won't ever go back. The Russians have strangled us." For older people, Dubcek's adventure provided a fresh breath of freedom that was too precious to give up. "You live 20 years in fear of your life, and then it gets better," observes a 50-year-old medical technician who fled to Paris. "You can never go back to what life was like before." Intellectuals...
...back and help build humanist socialism. But if there is no chance of winning, how can I go back to face intellectual-and maybe even physical-death?" The answer is to plan their lives, in the phrase they often use, "for the time being." But barring a total clamp down on personal liberties, most plan to return eventually, particularly the intellectuals. "None of us has the right to do what we did, then leave when things blow up in our faces," says Journalist-Writer Antonin Liehm. "After all, we started...
Bogovich scored the first two Crimson goals yesterday and boosted his team leading total for the season to nine goals in three games...
Dennis McLain, who carried the Tigers to their first pennant in 23 years, is a shoe-in for MVP in the American League. The brash 24-year-old right hander won 31 games this season, the highest total any major league pitcher has posted since Lefty Grove won 31 for the old Philadelphia Athletics in 1931. McLain, equally renowned for his musical virtuosity and his big mouth, has never played in a world series...