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...news from his home in La Habra, Calif, forced a cancellation. To Nixon's suite came a call from his brother Don: their father, Frank Nixon, 77, had suffered a partially ruptured abdominal artery, and seemed near death. The light went out of Dick Nixon's triumphal march to nomination: before 8 a.m., he and Pat were on the way home...
...that point Kennedy stood with 648 votes−just 38½ short of nomination. Over at the Stock Yard Inn, Kennedy, lolling in a private room in his shorts, began dressing to make his triumphal convention appearance. But before he could get there, the Tennessee switch had changed the chemistry of the balloting. Kennedy's vote hung. Kefauver's began to surge. Oklahoma switched from Gore to Kefauver; Minnesota, which had been split between Kefauver and Humphrey, swung solidly behind Estes. Kennedy and Kefauver strained to go over the top, as, in a situation of total confusion, half...
Veterans Together. Stevenson's triumphal, whistle-tooting week began when Estes Kefauver called a press conference in the Congressional Room of Washington's venerable Willard Hotel-the same room where he had launched his campaign last December. There, standing by accident beneath an EXIT sign and flanked by grim-faced Manager Florence ("Jiggs") Donohue and onetime Truman Attorney General J. Howard McGrath, Estes sadly read off his statement. Stevenson, "alone with me," fought his way through the primaries, said Estes; Stevenson had polled "over 600,000 votes more than I." Since Estes did not want...
...imperialist agent, renegade," and a hundred other names in the extensive vocabulary of Communist invective. Wearing a powder-blue military blouse loaded with gold braid and ribbons, and red-striped trousers, Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito stepped out of his luxury coach to the sound of Muscovite cheers and triumphal military music...
Armstrong & Co. left Accra without the triumphal procession that CBS had planned, but leaving a trail of good will anyhow. A band of young high-life musicians who followed him devotedly throughout the tour went back to their nightclubs feeling good-the master had told them they sounded just like the jazzmen in old-time New Orleans. "Man, it was just very," said one of them in his daze. Just very what? someone asked. "Just very great," he sighed...