Word: setting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Working under National Affairs Editor Louis Banks, a staff of 35 writers and researchers were set to move in whatever direction the night's fast-breaking news took them. Naturally, the President-elect would be on the cover; but that meant two writers assigned and primed to write cover stories-and inevitably one had no story to write. Other facets of the whole election story-the losers, the Senate, the House, the Governors-were in the hands of writers who spent long hours in advance anticipating the outcome, getting ready to measure the significance of the results...
...outside and tossed a soccer ball around for a few minutes, though even this momentary fling lacked the old Kennedy flavor of sibling aggressiveness. The rest of the time Bobby kept close to his own home (a stone's throw away from Jack's), where he had set up a command post bristling with long-distance phone lines and news tickers...
...night wore on, crowds gathered outside the Hyannis National Guard Armory, where carpenters had set up a makeshift platform from which Kennedy would make his nationwide victory speech. Pranksters hoisted a stuffed elephant on a telephone pole; newsmen milled about, waiting. Agents of the U.S. Secret Service, assigned to guard the winning candidate, notified the local police that they would move in when certain victory was assured...
...house. Jack Kennedy checked in a few more times to read the reports. His mother came down from the big house to see him. By midnight, the jubilation of local Democratic staffers had subsided somewhat as they realized that the race was still undecided. At a TV set in the early hours of the morning, Kennedy watched Richard Nixon's address to campaign workers in Los Angeles (see below), decided to follow the Vice President's lead by going to bed without delivering any public speech...
...campaign speech for Richard Nixon was fervent ("I lived with him in hours of intense discussion and thought and soul searching . . ."). But he coughed occasionally, and afterwards remarked cheerfully of his performance: "By golly, I had a hell of a time with that cold." Sprawled comfortably before a TV set, he nodded agreement to Nixon's final appeal speech from Chicago, then declared: "That's his best speech of the whole damn campaign...