Word: trailed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that he does not intend to undertake "partisan activities." If that is true, Humphrey may have reason to be grateful in the light of Johnson's plunge to a new low in the Gallup ratings (35% approval, 52% disapproval). Of course, a President can still hit the campaign trail and call it "governmental" rather than partisan activity if he so chooses. Aside from Texas, however, there are few places where the President is likely to be more an asset than a detriment to Humphrey -and even Texas could turn out to be G.O.P. territory...
...Rookie. Brooklyn born, Murphy grew up in Nichols, Fla., starred in football, basketball and especially baseball at Mulberry High School. Several baseball scouts were hot on his trail, but they cooled off after he suffered a severe shoulder separation in a football game. "It nearly murdered me at the time," he says, "but it was the best thing that could have happened. After all, how many baseball players make $70,000 in their rookie season...
Judy Agnew is joining her husband on the campaign trail, although she is "a member of the white-knuckle club where flying is concerned." She confesses that she is too tense to concentrate on in-flight movies. Her nervousness extends to her husband's public appearances, at which she is generally content to smile. When reporters recently asked Judy how she felt about the possibility of becoming Second Lady of the U.S., she ventured: "I think it would be very nice...
...stage Poseidon was first to lift off, at 6:30 a.m. Roaring up from darkness into the Florida dawn, the missile was illuminated by the rays of the rising sun. Leaving a psychedelic trail of ionized gases, it streaked away. Barely 10 minutes had elapsed after lift-off when it was announced that Poseidon had sped to a perfect splashdown, 1,150 miles away down the Atlantic missile range. Then came the taller, three-stage Minuteman III. Launched at 4:30 p.m. in a geyser of orange flame, it raced 5,000 miles to another brilliant on-target splashdown near...
...phone within miles at the Malibu sheriff's office, trying vainly to break the Rex Reed busy-signal barrier. Suddenly, like Ray Bolger bouncing onstage for a final bow, he is there before me, has waved hello, left three sentences hanging on the air like a vapor trail from a Boeing 707, and is breezing back inside before I even hear him : "It's-just-frantic-around-here-I've-been -on -the -phone - all-morning-now -I'm-talking-to-Melina-Mercouri...