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...aimed to please the crowd bored with Miami and scared of going to Havana because of the Cuban rebellion. The Puerto Rican government built the hotel for $6,000,000. leased it for two-thirds of the net to Associated Federal Hotels, a Southwestern chain (Phoenix's Westward Ho, San Antonio's Gunter), which spent another $1,200,000 on furnishings. (A similar deal for San Juan's Caribe Hilton, which has been a consistent moneymaker, will net the government about $1,500,000 this year...
...Southern politicos, hut as a presidential candidate, he still cannot realistically expect Southern sup port. This pains Humphrey. "I can do pretty good." he says, "in campaigning among the liberal Southerners." The Humphrey camp bases its strategic presidential planning on the argument that the Democratic balance of power shifted westward in the last elections...
Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey. With less fanfare than Kennedy, he rolled up 20,000 miles through 18 states. Midwest and Western Democratic gains shifted the balance of political power westward, helped Humphrey because his ardor for rigid farm-price supports is more attractive than Kennedy's fickleness...
...came word that Vermont had sent its first Democrat to Congress in 106 years. The Democratic bandwagon came to a screeching halt in New York, where Republican Nelson Rockefeller, after a remarkable personal campaign, carried the G.O.P. ticket to a vital win. But the Democrats regained their momentum moving westward, and climaxed their victory with the overwhelming defeat of Republican William Knowland for Governor in California...
...British left behind a Jordan in far less promising shape than Lebanon. Young King Hussein was reported seriously considering following the British westward for a "vacation" in Europe. He professed to feel in no further need of help. But as ever, Jordan continued to exist largely on the sufferance of more powerful neighbors who were restrained, if at all, by the feeling that any other solution to the Jordanian problem would be even worse...