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...defeated Republican Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. by 70,700 votes in 1952), reputation as an able, independent-thinking, middle-of-the-road member of both House (1946-52) and Senate. If the Democrats are to make their big pitch to farmers, Kennedy's vote this year against rigid, 90%-of-parity farm supports might work against giving him a place on the ticket. Far more controversial is the fact that Kennedy is a prominent Roman Catholic and-despite persuasive statistical arguments that...
...organization after its stunning primary defeat by Estes Kefauver, is now edging back toward the center of the national stage. St. Paul's Representative Eugene McCarthy (no kin to Joe) has begun organizing a Humphrey-for-Vice-President movement. Humphrey, an effective orator, is the champion of high, rigid farm supports. Although he has risen in the estimate of his Southern Senate colleagues (Georgia's Walter George offered to campaign for him in 1954), other Southerners recall vividly-and bitterly-his strident civil-rights performance at the 1948 convention. Humphrey's charter membership in Americans for Democratic...
...landing lights. Over." "Roger," said Plata, "we have you in sight now, 2124. We have the nose light on. We're flashing it on and off. Do you see us?" Replied Hancox: "Affirmative." Dumping Gas. Mike Sierra's Pilot Plata now had a severe weight problem: under rigid Civil Aeronautics Board safety regulations, a Super Constellation must not touch the ground unless it weighs no more than 110,000 Ibs.; to land at greater weight is to jeopardize aircraft and passengers. The procedure for reducing weight in emergency cases (although many a pilot would prefer to risk landing...
...point of view expressed above, with its emphasis on fluidity, indicates the reason for CRIMSON'S strictures on a most rigid J.F. Dulles, a certain lack of backbone was its main criticism of vice-president Dick Nixon, the Achilles heel of the Republican Party...
...continued to wear liberation uniforms, and many women cautiously covered their new dresses with old clothes. The timid scanned the May Day reviewing stand for signs that would give them courage, but Chairman Mao and his gang appeared in their old dark suits, more like a phalanx of rigid revolutionaries than flowers in bloom...