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This proposal, issued in San Francisco Tuesday night, bears a close resemblance to the United States Peace Corps Act introduced last year in Congress by Sen. Hubert Humphrey. A letter from Eberly, once a school teacher in Nigeria, had acquainted Humphrey with the idea...
Kennedy swam varsity for two years and earned his letter in the Yale meet of his Senior year. That year the team had a national champion, a fellow who won just about everything. Dick Tregaskis was later to win a Pulitzer Prize for his Guadalcanal Diary...
Several Republican scholars, called together by Fuller, met in Washington August 13 and announced that they were organizing to support their man. A letter to thousands of professors around the country and a brochure describing the group has been the only formal actions taken by the members as a group...
When a forester from West Rupert, Vt. wrote a letter to the major state newspapers announcing his candidacy for the Democratic Senatorial nomination early in 1958, party leaders were, to say the least, taken aback. When election returns subsequently showed that on $2,000 and the disarmament issue William Meyer had broken the 104-year Republican hold on Vermont's Congressional seat, there was a good deal of incredulous blinking. And when Meyer loomed up in the House calling for a profound re-examination of the government's Cold War efforts, the Congress and the whole country began stirring...
...Senate as he had originally intended. Meyer had been sitting in his living room one evening in the Spring of that year, with his family, when someone mused that he should run for the Senate. He arose, went into his study, and emerged with a copy of the letter which he sent to the newspapers, announcing his plans to seek the nomination. The Democrats, however, had already announced their support for another man, and feared a primary fight would weaken their chances beyond repair. They offered Meyer the rather dubious privilege of running for Congress on the Democratic ticket...