Word: triumphal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Huge crowds and deafening ovations, and particularly the strong, unequivocally political speech by Ike in Philadelphia, gave the Nixon camp fresh buoyancy, just when it seemed to be in some despair over the Kennedy bandwagon talk. The Nixon camp also set great store by the promised triumphal parade of Ike, Nixon and Lodge through New York City this week, and hopefully proclaimed that Kennedy had "peaked" too soon...
WITH KENNEDY IN CONN., Nov. 6--Pledging strong leadership for the next four years, Senator John Kennedy began his final push of the campaign today with a triumphal tour of Connecticut...
...hand over the union vote. But the Pennsylvania Dutch are suspicious of Kennedy's Catholicism, and are registering in large numbers for the first time since 1928. The many Poles and Lithuanians warmly remember Dick Nixon's tough talk to Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow and his triumphal entry into Warsaw. Nixon ran better than Ike did in the primaries. Kennedy collected a large write-in vote, drew enthusiastic crowds while campaigning. Outlook: even, with Kennedy gaining...
Just like Lincoln. At midweek Castro's spear-bearers shouldered Fidel's special refrigerator, two cages of white mice, a bunch of 3-ft.-tall stuffed toy animals bought in Manhattan, and prepared for a triumphal return to Cuba, where every TV station had carried the U.N. speech live, via the Straits of Florida over-the-horizon transmission link, which costs $2,200 hourly. Just before leaving, Castro received a gift package, later opened by the police bomb squad. The contents: ten lbs. of flea powder...
Never in recent times has a presidential contender of either party earned, wheedled, extorted-and perhaps deserved-such handsome press notices as were flung like roses in Kennedy's triumphal path at Los Angeles last week. The cartoonists were still having trouble capturing their man, though they were trying hard (see cuts). But the big journalistic guns of the convention-the political columnists-all thought they knew Kennedy, and they liked what they saw. Joseph Alsop, who wears gloom like a toga, was very nearly radiant. "The Senator," he wrote, "has a peculiarly effective public personality, with a strong...