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Stevenson partisans, who once dreamed of a Stevenson-Kennedy dream ticket, now realize that Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy is a far more formidable presidential candidate than they had believed possible. And Texas' Lyndon Johnson has corralled upwards of 300 Southern delegates; Johnson's backers vow their votes will never go to Stevenson. Pennsylvania's Governor David Lawrence, one of the last of the Northern Democratic bosses inclined toward Stevenson, last week flew to Springfield, Mo. to pay public tribute to Missouri's Stuart Symington. Said one former Stevenson follower (now actively campaigning for Kennedy): "There...
Knox had yet to feel any sense of religious vocation, but he had more than the nominal teen-ager's attraction to the religious life. At 17 he made a vow of celibacy: "The uppermost thought in my mind was not that of virginity . . . I must have 'power to attend upon the Lord without impediment...
Labor's leader, Hugh Gaitskell, had waged a buoyant campaign that left him unchallenged as party leader. In defeat he felt strong enough to pledge himself to "a vow of silence, self-imposed," while he "collected the voices" about what was wrong and what needed to be changed. But at his middle-class Hampstead home in north London, he chose to consult not with trade-union leaders, with whom he feels uncomfortable, but with fellow Oxford intellectuals such as Economist Douglas Jay, who publicly urged that the party should drop its "class image" and "nationalization myth" and even consider...
...were born to it. He moved his family into the Victorian, open-porched-Governor's mansion on Washington Place. In his inaugural address, he told Hawaiians: "The realization that I assume this office not by the will of the people' prompts me to vow that I shall meet all the people of our islands and shall in fact be their Governor." In his 23 months in the office, Bill Quinn has filled 560 speaking engagements, from one end of the archipelago to the other. When there were no speaking dates, he kept moving, visiting workers in the sugar...
Last week Castro also: -¶ Heard 700 tobacco farmers vow that they were ready "to be led before firing squads" rather than comply with Castro's confiscatory land reform (TIME, June 1). ¶ Waited the results of a "public-opinion poll" that will purport to show what the U.S. thinks of Castro. The poll is the first project of Bernard Relin & Associates Inc., a U.S. public-relations agency hired by Cuba in April for $72,000 a year. ¶ Learned that ex-Dictator Fulgencio Batista held $45,879,245 worth of stock in Cuban and foreign industries, about...