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...completely any region of the nation. The South is particularly complex and contradictory, a mix of modern and ancient, traditional and futuristic. East Texas, for example, is as Deep South in feeling as Savannah, Ga.; West Texas is truly western. Miami Beach is as much a suburb of New York???or Havana?as a Florida city. Yet there is much that knits this land and holds it together, with its own special character and flavor and language. If the South cannot be totally explored, it can at least be seen as reality, not as legend...
...probably lose in Delaware and Maryland. Chappaquiddick would reduce his chances in Pennsylvania to at best an even choice. But the freer lifestyles of New York and New Jersey place less premium on personal conduct. Kennedy would probably carry New Jersey, and he would certainly defeat Nixon in New York???and those two states would give him a majority of the region's electoral votes...
...world?and his magazines. On frequent trips around the U.S. and abroad, he eagerly quizzed TIME correspondents about the stories they were working on, made frequent speeches, questioned statesmen and cab drivers with equal pertinacity, meanwhile keeping up a steady flow of memos to his editors in New York???the last of which arrived a few hours after his death...
...certain odds-on choice for the G.O.P. presidential nomination in 1964?provided, of course, that he did not get into political trouble between times. Should a Nixon-Rockefeller ticket win, Rockefeller, of course, would not be the G.O.P. nominee in 1964. He would have lost the governorship of New York???which has not seemed to attract his talents lately anyway?but he would be the No. 2 Republican and possibly the No. 2 U.S. statesman on the national scene, and, as the politicians' phrase has it be "one heartbeat away" from the presidency. But the secret creed of ardent Rockefeller...
...sorts of colleges every year do this to me, salt water, fresh water and bilgewater colleges, and I have had to gaze on some of the most god-awful female mugs in this broad tho' narrow land! I know now why there are so many pretty gals in New York???all the ugly ones are in colleges...