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Whether croaking out a few bars of a Polish ditty on Dyngus Day* in South Bend, Ind., or japing down hecklers in Coos Bay, Ore., Robert Kennedy continued to elicit the extremes of ardor and rancor...
Paul Del Rossi was not an over-powering pitcher. He had a good, tailing fastball, but he was not Koufax-fast. He said his curveball was only fair. It did not bend around trees or drop off tables...
...political weather vane for the national election, the Wisconsin primary--pioneered by Gov. Robert La-Follette in 1903 as the first in the nation--has failed to bend even to popular hurricanes. In 1932, Wisconsin Democrats went for Al Smith, the rest of the nation for Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1952, state Republicans chose Robert A. Taft, while everyone else liked Gen. Dwight Eisenhower...
...conflict between the two loyalties during the expansive days of 1965 and 1966, when Congress and President were committed to an eradication of domestic ills. The 90th Congress, which is far less inclined toward constructive action, brought a different mood to Capitol Hill, and Johnson appeared ready to bend with the prevailing breezes of caution and negativism. While the President pointedly avoided ringing the alarm bell after last summer's riots-or indeed doing much of anything at all-Gardner, always the most candid man in the Administration, eloquently voiced his own concern...
...trees opens up, and there is a glimpse of long dirt roads, gas station signs and telephone poles, laundry spread out on the grass to dry, and people walking past rows of identical shops stacked with bright plastic washtubs. The reflection of the equatorial sun is painful. Round another bend, the trees close together again, and the view is all woods and vines for ten miles more...