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Staying Hitched. Born in 1868 in a mud-chinked cabin near Blossom Prairie, Garner took to politics like a bird dog after quail. In 15 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, he rose to Speaker; then in 1932 he made a bid for the presidency. With potent support from William Randolph Hearst, Garner held the Texas and California delegations until the fourth ballot, then threw his votes to F.D.R., in a deal that made him the ticket...
Leak at Sea. Given Reagan's rep utation as a political Mr. Clean and Pearson's as a mud merchant who likes to zero in on conservatives, Reagan's vigorous denial should have left him in the clear. The trouble was that Lynn Nofziger, Reagan's communications director and one of his closest subordinates, had himself leaked a similar story to a number of reporters during last month's Governors' Conference aboard the S.S. Independence...
Penn's first goal was attributable to luck and the weather, but the Quakers eliminated any cause for complaint with two undisputably earned tallies. The icebreaker came in the mud and slick left over from a pre-game rain...
...every prospect of being a model campaign. Democrat Carl B. Stokes, a Negro and son of a laundry worker, and Republican Seth Taft, scion of a distinguished political dynasty, are candidates of demonstrable ability and goodwill. Moreover, both had seemed determined to keep the campaign out of the mud. But by last week the race had descended from issues to insults...
Dressed in their best white shirts, the dozen Viet Cong leaders assembled at dusk in a mud-walled house in the little Delta village of An Lac Thon to mourn a fallen comrade. Only the afternoon before, their district propaganda chief had been killed by a raiding party of U.S. Navy commandos. Now, as they gathered in silence, a security guard of 40 men kept watch in the rain outside, and another 50 Viet Cong waited only 100 yards away. All the guns seemed hardly necessary. As they do with many a Delta village, the Viet Cong considered...