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...hustle and bustle of its business life. Milan, as one of the biggest centers of free enterprise in Europe, had been heretofore nearly ignored by U.S. press correspondents, who generally preferred covering the highly colorful Sweet Life of Rome, and we thank you for so authoritatively filling a gap...
...With the virtually solid backing of the South and scattered support in the West, Johnson, at the time of his announcement last week, could count up some 500 first-ballot votes toward the 761 needed to win the nomination?but Jack Kennedy could count well beyond 600. Arithmetically, the gap seemed fairly narrow. Strategically, it was enormous...
...Johnson's hopes of closing that gap and winning the nomination rested on a faith that characterized his whole approach to the belated race: much of the delegate support for Kennedy sprang not from any real belief in Kennedy as the best possible candidate, but from politicians' normal desire to get with the winner in 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...
...stark fact remains that there was no substance in the hopes which were temporarily raised by this reporter and other optimistic interpreters. Instead, there is the same old hard reality of the period of the missile gap, with all its potential dangers...
...Cocked Hat. Gap-toothed, numbingly British Comic Terry-Thomas, aided by Peter Sellers and Thorley Walters, launches a satirical spitball at the British Foreign Office in this hilarious spoof of the lost art of statecraft...