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Bruce biossat
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in kt * ns L mos J,. o f to® states to have any hope of winning
in November, Vice President Humphrey’s managers profess
to see the glimmerings of fresh hope in New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania and even a ray or two in California.
1 hey already have more than a little confidence, of course,
over Massachusetts—usually the most heavily Democratic
state among the eight most populous outside the solid South.
On the other hand, key Humphrey men acknowledge that
Patters are quite difficult in Michigan and very, very uphill
m Illinois and Ohio.
If Humphrey’s prospects—measured against those of Rich
ard Nixon and George Wallace—are that weak presently in
Illinois and Ohio, there is at least a chance his strategists are
overreading the signs of hope in the big eastern tier and in
California.
Por election experts point out that, with rare exceptions
the big ones (leaving out atypical Texas and Florida) tend in
presidential elections to run pretty much to a pattern.
In 1952 and 1956, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower swept all eight of
them and in 1964 President Johnson did the same. In 1960
despite the closeness of the combat, the late John F. Kennedy
won six of the eight from Nixon. Onlv in the somewhat freak
ish 1948 election was there a close division, with Harry Tru
man and Thomas E. Dewey each winning four.
Especially interesting is the way these big eight, with the
occasional exception of \ Massachusetts, tend to fall within a
(airly narrow percentage range in presidential elections.
For instance, in winning all eight in 1952, Eisenhower found
his vote percentages ranging from a low of 52.7 in Pennsyl
vania to a high of 56.8 in New Jersey and Ohio. His 1956 show
ng produced winning percentages varying from 55.4 in Cali
fornia to 64.7 in New Jersey.
Lyndon Johnson’s 1964 sweep brought showings from a low
of 59.1 in California to a high of 76.2 in Massachusetts.
Except for a handsome 60.2 per cent in Massachusetts, John
Kennedy in 1960 won the bulk of the big eight with percent
ages running from a scant 50-plus in Illinois to 52.5 per cent
in New York.
At least one election specialist here believes that the lesson
tor Hubert Humphrey in this historical record has almost the
force of iron. He does not accept any contention that the vice
president may be doing fairly well in New York but badly in
Ohio and Illinois.
In his judgment, what underlies the close percentage simi
larities in the big eight northern states in election after elec
tion is the simple fact that—even though geographically they
span the continent—they are quite alike in their social, eco
nomical and political make-up.
Any kind of tide running in two or three of them is likely to
be running in all.
At this still early stage In the 1968 race, the visible tide is
goiug strongly against Humphrey.
If he is to reverse it, possibly with the divisive help of
George Wallace, he will have to find the encouraging signs in
virtually all of the big eight states and not just a handful. So
far, that evidence is very much lacking.
Soviets Say They’ll
Win Moon Space Race
MOSCOW (UPD—The Soviet
Union today hailed the safe
return of Zond 5 from around
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NEA Washington Correspondent
the moon as the dress rehearsal
of an identical manned space
flight that would put Russia far
ahead in the race to put a man
on the moon.
The Soviet news agency Tass
said Zond 5 splashed into the
Indian Ocean between Africa
and Australia Saturday and
Soviet warships recovered it
Sunday. It was the first space
craft returned safely from a
trip around the moon.
“The moon is closer to earth
now. More precisely, it is closer
to Soviet scientists,” said Soviet
scientist S. Yesenov on televi
sion. "It is difficult to
overestimate this new achieve
ment of the Soviet science and
technology.”
Western scientists predicted
the Soviets would try sending a
man around the moon and back
later this year. The United
States has scheduled for late
December the Apollo 8 flight to
carry three men on a lunar
orbit and return to earth.
"Through this spectacular
success, the Soviet Union will
become the first country Jo land
a manned spacecraft on the
moon,” said Heinz Kaminsky,
head of the Bochum Satellite
and Space Research Center in
Germany.
Zond 5 was launched on its
Journey last Sunday from a
"piggyback” earth satellite. It
carried out a complex change in
course Tuesday, orbited the
moon Wednesday and sped back
toward earth at 25,000 miles an
hour. Its closest pass to the
moon was 1,200 miles.
Surviving the intense heat
from air friction while reenter
ing the atmosphere was its
toughest test. Soviet scientists
said they slowed It down to a
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arms during an air assault and sweep operation on the Mekong Delta about 20 miles
south of Saigon, South Vietnam.
Commie Guerrillas
Hijacked Planes
BOGOTA (UPD — Colombia
government officials today iden
tified as well known Communist
guerrillas the men who hijack
ed two Colombian airliners on
domestic flights Sunday and
forced them to fly to Cuba.
Within two hours, they said,
Ramon Garcia and Carlos
Londono seized two Avianca
Airlines planes with a total of
137 persons aboard after takeoff
from Barranquilla and took
them to separate airfields in
Cuba. Neither landed in Hava
na.
"These acts of violence may
be part of a plan directed from
Havana,” said Gen. Gerardo
Ayerbe-Chaux, the minister of
defense. He added they could
hardly be considered “the result
of a mere coincidence.
"second cosmic speed” for
passage through a slx-mlle-wide
“window in space” required for
landing accurately.
Soviet announcements hinted
a ship just like Zond 5 might
carry the first cosmonaut in the
attempt to orbit the moon and
return.
Western scientists said Zond 5
was big enough to carry a man.
Tass hinted it carried the
artificial helium mixture Soviet
cosmonauts would probably use
on future space trips.
Most important, Zond 5
transmitted back to earth a
voice recording by telephone,
meaning a man aboard would
have been able to have a direct
conversation with earth from
near the moon 238,000 miles
away—a major communications
breakthrough.
U.S. scientists predicted the
Russians might try one manned
earth orbital first to perfect
manned flight systems which
went awry on their last
cosmonaut flight, killing the
cosmonaut. America’s Apollo 7
carries three men on such a
mission Oct. 11.
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One of the airliners, a Boeing
727 jet with 71 passengers and a
crew of six, landed at Cama
guey in central Cuba. It was
quickly released and returned to
Barranquilla without Garcia.
Government officials kept the
passengers and crew seques
tered from newsmen on their
return.
The second plane, a propeller
driven DC4 with 56 passengers
and a crew of four, went to
Santiago de Cuba. It was kept
there. Swiss diplomats in
Havana indicated it would be
returned today. There was no
word on Londono.
The 727 was en route from
Barranquilla to Cartagena while
the DC4 was flying to Santa
Maria when the hijackers took
over. The hijackings brought to
five the number of Colombia
airliners diverted to Cuba in the
last 12 months.
On Friday an Eastern Airlines
plane flying from San Jaun to
Maim! was hijacked with 45
persons aboard and flown to
Cuba. The hijacker got off and
the plane fie won to Miami
Saturday.
Ayerbe-Chaux called a meet
ing of the military commanders
of Colombia and their intel
ligence chiefs to adopt strict
security measures to prevent
further hijackings of domestic
Colombia flights.
BATTLESHIP DOCKS
MANILA (UPD—The battle
ship USS New Jersey was
docked at Subic Bay naval base
today on its last stop en route
to combat duty off Vietnam.
There was no indication how
long the ship, recently taken out
of "mothballs,” would remain
in Subic Bay.
The New Jersey is the world’s
only operative battleship.
NEW NAME
DEAD HILL, Italy (UPD—
The residents of this town have
long objected to its name but
the clamor rose to crisis pitch
when provincial authorities de
cided to locate a hospital of the
same name here. Authorities
announced they would delay
dedication until townspeople
picked a new name.
Monk Who
Claimed Christ’s
Marks Is Dead
SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO,
Italy (UPD—Padre Pio of
Pletrelcina, a Capuchin monk
who claimed to bear the
crucifixion wounds of Christ and
was venerated as a living saint
by thousands, died today at 81.
Death of undisclosed causes
came to the frail piest only
hours after tens of thousands of
believers and tourists jammed a
cathedral in this south Italian
town for services commemorat
ing the 50th anniversary of the
day he proclaimed his stigmata.
It found him in a multi
million dollar hospital built with
funds contributed by members
of his worldwide cult—one
measure of the impact he had
upon people who believed he
had been marked by God as a
miracle-healer and saint.
Pio, born Francesco Forgione
to an Italian peasant couple,
proclaimed on Sept. 20, 1918,
that wounds identical to those
suffered by Christ upon the cross
had opened upon his hands, feet
and left breast. He claimed
those wounds never healed and
thereafter he lived life in the
eye of a religious cyclone.
The Vatican at one time tried
to silence or exile Pio but
eventually preferred ignoring
his purported phenomenon. At
the time of his death it had
taken no official stand.
But Roman Catholics to whom
the monk's legend appealed
deeply dedicated themselves to
him. So did commercial pro
fiteers who took advantage of
his drawing power.
Year after year, thousands
and then millions of faithful
made pilgrimages to this town
in the dusty, poverty gripped
heel of the Italian boot,
convinced Pio could heal by
miracle, could be in two places
at once, could exude aromas
and do all things attributed by
canon to saints.
San Giovanni’s population
swelled from 3,000 to 20,000 and
17 hotels were built to house
visitors whose ranks grew to 2.5
million annually.
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Colleges
Callaway
ATLANTA (UPD—A contri
bution hailed as the largest pri
vate donation to higher educa
tion in Georgia will go toward
keeping and finding quality
teachers in 33 Georgia colleges
and universities.
"The Callaway foundation has
gone straight to the heart of the
matter,” said State University
Chancellor George Simpson,
after the announcement of the
$lO million grant to the schools,
which include private and pub
lic Institutions.
The grant, announced by Ful
ler E. Callaway Jr., chairman
of the Callaway Foundation Sat
urday, will establish a trust
fund from which specially
designated professors will re
ceive salary supplements. A
total of 40 professors at the 33
schools will receive supple
ments of up to 50 per cent of
what the colleges are paying
them.
Callaway said the grant was
"the largest single private con
tribution ever given to educa
tion in Georgia.”
The schools receiving the
grants are:
Agnes Scott College, Decatur;
Armstrong State College, Sa
vannah; Emory University, At
lanta; Toccoa Falls Institute,
Toccoa Falls, Ga.; Berry Col-
COOL CAPER
TUJUNGA, Calif. (UPD—
"Our boss told us it’s legal,”
said the two girls arrested for
indecent exposure Sunday while
sweeping the driveway clad
solely in bikini bottoms.
Carole Corene Rose, 24, and
Gayle Ann Bell, 21, are topless
Waitresses.
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Boy, 17, Slain
At Football Game
SAVANNAH, Ga. (UPD—Po
lice said a fatal shooting that
took place at an Integrated high
school football game was not
connected with the game or
with race.
Seventeen-year -old Robert
Shuman, a student from Beach
High School, a predomlnantely
Negro school, was shot by
another Negro youth after a
scuffle between the two, police
said.
Beach was playing Benedic
tine, a Catholic high school that
is predominately White when
Shuman and a 16-year-old youth
got into an argument.
Police said that the younger
boy was standing In the way
while Shuman was attempting
to take a photograph of a group
in the cheering section of Me
morial stadium on the Beach
side, according to witness re
ports.
They said words were ex
changed and Shuman slapped
the youth and that the younger
boy then whipped out a pistol
and shot him.
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