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...morning after election the successful candidate stands at the peak of political success." Then "many problems that until now have been only dimly sensed and perhaps deliberately avoided come fully into view ... the next ten or eleven weeks seem like a short time...
...that make him politically vulnerable. The focus is on the re-election campaign of Rep. William H. Meyer, whose championing of the peace issue has left him open for a smear-job along all too familiar lines. Another victory for him this year in conservative Vermont would be the peak in a series of surprises on which Meyer has built his short political career...
...bear-hugging mothers, with Tennessee Williams-type drama or the P.T.A., there were happy surprises. In fact, by combining the last two themes-by having Elaine act as P.T.A. chairman for an evening of Art and Mike act as the Southern playwright speaker-they reached the evening's peak. They reached it partly, perhaps, because each did a monologue in his own uninterrupted, unblurred style. When the two play together, things occasionally run together...
...quite possible that my longtime love for the home-town paper and Mr. Block's longtime production of wordless strokes of genius have something to do with it, but I cannot refrain from saying that your cover of Oct. 3 is a new peak, your finest! The figure of Castro alone says more than all the words of Sartre recently reported by TIME...
...owns only eleven jets), will be able to buy outright its whole jet fleet, which by the end of the year will total 43 planes. The loan total is only slightly more than the profit Hughes could have made by selling his TWA stock at its postwar market peak of 72. Its price at last week's closing: 12⅝ up 1¼ on the news of Hughes's financing deal...