Word: trailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...candidate and the new day with a rousing cheer that echoed up the canyon. At Redding the sun was warmer, and 1,500 citizens lined up under a fringe of trees along the siding while Kennedy trotted out the old nostalgia ("I follow here in 1960 the same trail Harry Truman took in 1948 when he came down this valley and carried California in the 1948 election"). At Sacramento, 5,000 massed in the station to hear Kennedy invoke the shade of a famous Republican: "Abraham Lincoln said, T know there is a God and he hates injustice...
Jumpy Moods. Behind Kennedy lay his first full week of campaigning as a national candidate, along a trail that covered Alaska, Michigan, and the far West. It was a week of ups and downs, exhilarating and disappointing by turn. In Detroit, 35.000 listless labor unionists turned up in Cadillac Square for the traditional Labor Day speech-far fewer than the 100,000 the labor bosses had promised. In Portland, Ore., on the other hand, several hundred latecomers were turned away at the door of the Civic Auditorium, while the youthful capacity crowd of 6,000 whooped it up inside with...
Just when the adjournment of Congress promised a wide-open campaign trail, Richard Nixon discovered that he was not only running against Jack Kennedy but against a crippling opponent named hemolytic Staphylococcus aureus. A few days after he banged his left knee on an automobile door during his quick campaign trip to Greensboro, N.C., he began to sense that something was wrong. The knee swelled, but instead of going to a doctor, Nixon just bandaged the leg himself. Ten days after the accident he turned himself in to Walter Reed General Hospital for tests. A doctor drained off a sample...
...bucketing down the main street on their perkiest cow ponies. Then came automobiles-but little else changed. Everyone still barreled through town at a breakneck clip. The sheriff was twelve miles away in Abilene, as remote as he was in the old freewheeling frontier days of wagon trains and trail herds...
...many premature deaths, Dr. Raab believes, is to be seen in thousands of Russian kurorty, where workers go for intensive physical training and reconditioning. West Germany has followed suit, with a dozen year-round centers for elderly and sedentary men. Will U.S. men voluntarily hit the shoe-leather trail? Dr. Raab doubts it and fears legislation may be needed to compel them...