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...looked enormously relaxed, but he still couldn't quite turn off the campaign juices. During a shopping trip to Charlotte Amalie, he bought a can of salted nuts, a tax-free wrist watch-and strode up and down the streets all but searching for more hands to shake. He went deep-sea fishing, boated a 6-ft. 6-in. sailfish, posed afterward for bare-chested photographs with his son Bob. 20. To prove "his prowess, Hubert proudly flexed his biceps...
teen-ager playing for Har-Brack high school in Brackenridge, Pa. "Guys would shake hands with me, and there would be bills in their palms," he remembers-and sometimes the take ran to $150 a week. The N.F.L.'s Cleveland Browns signed him at 18, shipped him off to Canada for seasoning. Cookie liked it so well he decided to stay. By 1962, when he quit and shuffled off to Buffalo, Cookie was the No. 1 back in Canadian football and a $20,000-a-year man with the Toronto Argonauts...
...close, men in Washington began to speculate earlier than usual about the composition of the new Johnson Cabinet. Some soundings taken among leading Washington reporters and among bureaucrats in the Executive Branch indicate that the President will make few changes in the foreign and defense sphere but will definitely shake up the domestic posts...
...John Hancock Insurance Company in Boston this week Brooke was a smashing success. Tables of girls in the cafeteria giggled as he approached, and many men stood from their lunches to shake his hand. (When gubernatorial candidate Francis X. Bellotti put in a similar appearance in the cafeteria, the John Hancock officials observed, this did not happen.) In a typical interchange there, he approached a table of women and said, "I'm Ed Brooke. Sorry to disturb your lunch, but I just wanted to say hello." As he left the table, one woman turned to another and signed, "Such...
...crowd does not stay with him. They shake his hand or catch a glimpse of him--and then move on. After he has walked a block and a half, he is relatively free from the pushing and shoving...