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LYNDON JOHNSON'S curious remark that, "the New Hampshire primary is one that anyone can enter and everyone can win," may yet prove one of the most astute comments on that event. Like the Tet offensive in Vietnam, the magical 42 per cent of the vote Senator McCarthy commandeered turned the 1968 campaign into "an entirely new ball game" in a number of ways. The primary, regarded as a sharp rebuke to the President himself and/or his Vietnam policy, may actually be an ironic stroke of fortune in an otherwise steadily growing list of political nightmares for the man from...
First, the much heralded McCarthy "win" in New Hampshire cost Johnson only twenty delegate votes. A recent New York Times survey showed Johnson still in control of, or likely to control almost two-thirds of the convention's delegates. The media, however, in focusing so closely on New Hampshire, make Johnson's fall appear imminent, if not inevitable, and the President, in recent speeches, has even tried to project an image of himself as the underdog. Particularly since the New Hampshire, primary immediately preceeds the Wisconsin race, in which McCarthy has always been expected to do well, Johnson himself...
...prospects of a disastrous Kennedy-McCarthy showdown in Oregon, Nebraska or Indiana now seem high. Even if Johnson does not win outright victories in these primary states, the anti-war financial support as well as staff will be badly split. The dream of the anti-war forces, a joint Kennedy-McCarthy attack on the President's policy, is melting in the heat of success. McCarthy seems more than a little annoyed at Kennedy's haste, and remarks half-whimsically that, "the track is getting a little crowded," while Kennedy supporters quietly insist that the Minnesota Senator will be forced...
...hardly his last. After his win against Navy, Del Rossi breezed to a two-hit, 2-1 win over Columbia. Army was his next victim as he spun a five-hitter and blew down 11 batters on strikeouts. In the space of two weeks, Del Rossi had limited the three best teams in the East to two earned runs in 26 innings...
...must" for the team, and Del Rossi invariably responded in the clutch. In a game against Dartmouth which Harvard needed to clinch the championship, Del Rossi handcuffed the Indians on a six-hitter, captain Tom Stephenson blasted five hits, and the Crimson rolled to a 15-0 win and the Eastern title...