Word: setbacks
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Last Thursday the Northerners nearly failed to muster a quorum. Fortunately, several of their Dixie colleagues strode into the chamber at the last moment, drawled "present," and spared the nascent coalition an embarrassing setback. Last Saturday morning however, Southern generosity evaporated and the Senate adjourned, without a quorum, after forty-five minutes of self-conscious foot-shuffling by the leadership. Senator Humphrey's commitment and energy haven't flagged. After last week, the same is hard to say of the men he is trying to lead...
...Herbert Hoover, 89, at his Waldorf Towers apartment in Manhattan, rallying after a bleeding right kidney and a respiratory infection caused the second serious setback to his failing health in eight months; Earl Mountbatten, 63, Chief of the British Defense staff, in London's King Edward VIIs Hospital for Officers, after an operation for a hernia; Sportscaster Red Barber, 56, in Emporia, Va.'s Greensville Memorial Hospital, with a mild heart attack; Historian George Kennan, 60, in Princeton Hospital with hepatitis; John Glenn, 42, in Columbus' Grant Hospital with a "mild" concussion after he fell...
...just three saves in the period--the Cornell goalie had to stop 16 shots. The loss dropped Harvard (2-2) into fourth place in the Ivy League behind surprising Dartmouth (3-1), Brown (2-1), and Cornell (3-2). The Crimson should still be able to recover from the setback--Dartmouth has yet to play Cornell or Brown, and Harvard defeated them previously. Brown has lost its first-string goalie for the year. And Cornell has lost as many League games as Harvard. But another league setback would effectively eliminate the Crimson from a shot at the title...
...Miss Sadie Zlotkin, a temporarily unemployed coat stitcher in West Los Angeles, when asked if she had made any major purchases in the last year, could reply: "Nothing major. Only a trip to Europe." Despite a shorter shopping period this year between Thanksgiving and Christmas-and the sudden, shocked setback of President Kennedy's death just as the holiday season opened-U.S. merchants have discovered to their surprise that Christmas sales this year have been better than ever before...
...Kirsch, Pete Busch, and Dave Dooley garnered eight victories, which gave the Crimson the margin for their third triumph of the season, against one setback...