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Under Nixon's new plans he and Lodge will formally open their campaign early-next week with ceremonies at Baltimore's Friendship Airport. Then they will part company, with Lodge heading for Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Florida, Nixon setting out on a whirlwind tour that will take him to 18 cities and towns in 14 states over a span of six days. That schedule is typical of the grueling pace that Nixon has set for himself from the time he gets out of Walter Reed right down to election...
Fidel Castro could have pretended to ignore the anti-Cuban resolution written in Costa Rica by OAS diplomats, because it did not specify Cuba by name. Instead he chose to strike his favorite defiant, heroic pose and staged a whirlwind week of speeches, each more frenzied and more sinister than the last. The climax was a massive demagogic stunt: an invitation to all Cubans (who have no representative government) to take part in a "People's Assembly" in Havana's Civic Plaza, where, in the style of the French revolutionary terror, they could roar approval of proposed...
...routine flight to Stanleyville suddenly heard on his radio the voice of the "commander of the Fifth Bicycle Battalion" warning sternly, "Do not violate my air space again or I'll shoot you down!" But in the 47 regional centers where they had been scattered by whirlwind airlifts (see map), the U.N.'s 11,000 troops had no trouble at all keeping the peace...
This week, the Congo may even have a functioning government. After a whirlwind trip from Washington to Canada, where he got Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's promise of a 100-man-army communications network in the Congo, Lumumba buzzed back to New York. On his schedule were nothing but a trip to Macy's, the purchase of some English language records and a flight for home, presumably to try to solve some of the problems he has just been talking about up till...
...been impressed. Johnson noted in Reno, "by the determination of the delegates to make up their own minds. They're resentful of the idea that they're sewed up." Commented South Dakota's big-voiced Governor Ralph Herseth after a whirlwind Johnson visit: "He made no attempt to pressure us or sweep anyone off his feet. It should improve his position with our delegates...