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...time to earn rewards or at least avoid punishments. Once the convention saw that Kennedy was not going to run away with the nomination on the first or second ballot, his support would start melting away, and the convention would then turn to Lyndon Johnson as the best qualified candidate???so ran Johnson's hopes. * "I think you're rewarded for what you do, what you produce, and not for kissing babies," he said. "I'll believe this until I'm proven wrong...
...days before the Democratic gathering at the capital Governor Roosevelt delivered his regular message to his Legislature. In its references to the national scene, apart from its delineation of a program for the State, it was just the sort of paper to be expected from a conventional presidential candidate???care- fully balanced, shrewdly generalized, replete with phrases like bright empty bottles into which any man could pour his own meaning. Newsmen, overanxious to make a "story," outdid themselves reading national significance into his words. Excerpts...
Despatches from Bucharest announced that the long heralded Roumanian general elections resulted last week in a three to one government majority. Cables from non-Roumanian cities reported, as usual, that the Roumanian government had exercised the most inhuman violence against Opposition candidates, that at least one such candidate???a priest named Turco?had been killed by government supporters with the assistance of gendarmes. What occurred may be judged from an account cabled from Vienna by able New York Times correspondent Clarence Streit...
...leading Republican candidate???expected to win the Republican primaries?is Frank D. Waterman, famed manufacturer of fountain pens, nephew of his company's founder...