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...Republicans carried Texas and won. Although Texas had been regarded as leaning toward Nixon shortly before the vote, Humphrey took its 25 electoral votes, but by only 39,000 out of 3.1 million votes cast. Witcover quotes a Nixon insider as saying after the campaign that Connally could have gotten the Defense job if "he had had a few more guts," meaning if he had not switched...
...long gone. After Helena has cured him, the two of them execute a dance; he launches into his speech on honor with the vigorous irresistibility of a bulldozer, and gets a fine laugh through the exasperated way he says to Bertram. "Speak. Thine answer." -as though anybody could have gotten a single word in edgewise. Sommer is an unusually intelligent actor; one never doubts that he understands every word he utters...
...last time I saw Roger, after Bob had kicked him out, he was sitting on the sidewalk. He had gotten a new pair of glasses, but they were resting in his pocket. He rolled his eyes and said "hey" but he could not recognize me and I left quickly...
...think that there's good dope, and they've heard that the heat isn't so bad here. The law, that is. "Which opens up a pretty touchy subject. The heat didn't used to be bad here. Since the Harvard Square riot, in April, it's gotten much worse. Flash is pissed at the polities. He says they're all from Harvard and M.I.T., and marched into the Square and fore shit out of it without thinking of the people who live in it-like Flash. But here Flash is probably the exception. Most street freaks probably think...
...pretty heavy this summer. The University, not wanting to play the fool again, closed down the Houses this summer to keep street people from staying in students' rooms. There has already been a mini-riat. More are promised. Drug rip-offs are happening all the time. People have gotten shot trying to protect their stashes...