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...pictures were taken on the day Kennedy was shot. in America's procrustean political mechanisms. While Kennedy assured such blocs he would represent them, he also tried to give them a sense that their own participation, wholly apart from his own future, would in time yield results. The upshot of his pitch was a multiple victory: alienated blacks and poor whites voted en masse in Indiana and California, clinched Kennedy wins, and got a brief feeling that their votes actually meant something...
Even so, if Communist negotiators are true to form, the weeks and months to come will bring well-rehearsed tantrums and tirades, dramatic walkouts and magnanimous walkins, endless impasses and?perhaps?sudden breakthroughs. The upshot could be a hopeless deadlock that would almost surely lead to a wider, more savage war. Or it could be a gradual phase-down in the fighting and, ultimately, peace...
...result, even though Nixon romped through last week's Wisconsin primary with 80% of the vote, some Republicans are convinced that the upshot of Johnson's action will be to bring New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller back into the race. For the time being, Rocky was holding back, still maintaining that a genuine draft was the only thing that could return him to contention. "Sure, Johnson's out," said a Rockefeller aide, "but that doesn't change our problem?the Republican Party. They don't want Rockefeller. It's as simple as that." In an effort to remedy...
BRECHT: Quite right of course, and I only meant to take his side because there is always another side to be taken. To see some upshot of your imagination stalk about, even limp about...
...upshot of this hardened attitude may be to "make a negotiated peace impossible for some time to come," concludes Kennedy. Even so, and even though a negotiated settlement would entail the risk of an eventual Viet Cong takeover, he holds that peace talks are the only way out of the war. "Withdrawal is now impossible," he says, because it would "damage our position in the world." As for outright military victory-the only other alternative-that goal "is at best uncertain and at worst unattainable...