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Down with the blintz-munching, spaghetti-slurping, model-T-riding, cow-milking, let-me-shake-your-wonderful-hand type of campaigner. Why not restrict these grotesque acts of idiocy to the first week of September, requiring thereafter that candidates think and speak...
...more crowd exposure, sent Freeman and/or Humphrey handshaking in tandem with quick-to-learn Gene McCarthy. ¶ Refined a technique of farmers' socials, got local D.F.L. farm contacts to invite neighbors for coffee and ice cream, drew 100-or-so hard-to-reach farmers at a time to shake friendly Humphrey-Freeman- McCarthy hands and hear out criticisms of Republican Ezra Benson (but rarely of respected Ed Thye) in one sitting. ¶ Put on new-style women's tours in which the wives-Muriel Humphrey, Jane Freeman and Abigail McCarthy, old friends, old political pros-went...
...when he could not find Ohio State's stormy Woody Hayes for the traditional post-game handshake. Exploded Mollenkopf: ''This is the first time in my twelve years in the Big Ten where a coach was too damned big or busy to come around and shake hands...
...Director Billy Wilder's smallest advice ("You'll make me forget how I'm going to do this scene"). A mild man, Wilder survived by treating Monroe like a fine Swiss watch: "Only it doesn't start ticking when you just wind. You have to shake it a little-not just any old way-but just so." ¶ Producer Darryl Zanuck, fervent avuncular friend of Left Bank Singer Juliette ("the wild one") Greco, rode into battle for his protégée. Through a London gossip column, U.S. Moviemaker Carl Foreman irritably reported that Zanuck...
...airliner, this time with seven U.S. nationals aboard, forced it to crash-land in Nipe Bay. Early reports put the dead at 17 of 20 passengers and crew. In the backlands where rebel bands roam more or less at will, candidates were terrorized. They could not make campaign speeches, shake hands, or get before the people in any fashion, except from the safety of heavily guarded TV stations. A few were shot down. In Oriente province, balloting was virtually impossible. In a frenzy of rage, Castro laid ambushes along the major highways. Burnt-out cars and buses studded the roads...