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...ward that end, and there are other facts working against it. Each man by now has attracted a considerable following that desperately wants him to win and doesn't much care how or for what reasons. These voters run the gamut from those who think Johnson will usher in Communism to those who feel just as strongly that Goldwater will provoke war. The other fact is that Johnson is so far ahead in all the polls that very few people feel a serious debate would make any difference any way. Even Goldwater's top aides agree with national...
...longer," said Lockheed Propulsion's President Robert F. Hurt. "One of these days the big boosters will all be solids." General Joseph S. Bleymaier, deputy commander of the Air Force's Space Systems Division, for which the engine was built, seconded the motion: "I believe this will usher in a new era of solid-propellant rocket motors...
Died. Andrew Thomas Frain, 60, founder and chief executive of Andy Frain Crowd Engineering Service, the U.S. House of Usher; one of 17 children of a Chicago immigrant hod carrier, who started moving mobs at Black Hawk hockey games in 1923 by using polite, well-paid ($5 a night) college boys, built an elite of white-gloved, blue-and-gold-uniformed six-footers who maintain decorum at some 10,000 events a year, from political conventions (since 1932) and prizefights (Clay-Liston) to funerals (including his); of a heart attack; in Rochester, Minn...
...Gallup is haunted by a pollstergeist. He is possessed by the notion that if enough people are polled on enough subjects, the truth about disease, happiness, longevity, poverty, politics and war will soon become obvious. Then, armed with facts, the population need only use its untapped brain power to usher in "a higher plane of civilization" that would make classical Greece or the Renaissance look like cultural wastelands by comparison. "All that is required," Gallup asserts with Panglossian optimism, "is a firm belief in man's great potentialities and a readiness to accept change...
Varsity soccer (3), Captain; Varsity squash; Varsity Lacrosse; Undergraduats Athletic Council; A.D. Club; Hasty Pudding Club; Varsity Club; Junior usher; Dean's List...