The nation . g papers all carried out-raged cries from conservative politi-cos all over Latin America whopresumably had not seen, but onlyheard, the show. I talked to no manon the street, however simple, whosaw the show and who took awaythe impression that Senator Kennedyhad advocated military intervention. Finally, although his handlers havecertainly turned out a New Nixon,and overcome that fatal resemblanceto Rudolf Hess, they have notsucceeded in producing an image,to use current slang, to match theSenators air of passionate convic-tion, commitment and sweet ingenu-ousness. It may all be a
The nation . g papers all carried out-raged cries from conservative politi-cos all over Latin America whopresumably had not seen, but onlyheard, the show. I talked to no manon the street, however simple, whosaw the show and who took awaythe impression that Senator Kennedyhad advocated military intervention. Finally, although his handlers havecertainly turned out a New Nixon,and overcome that fatal resemblanceto Rudolf Hess, they have notsucceeded in producing an image,to use current slang, to match theSenators air of passionate convic-tion, commitment and sweet ingenu-ousness. It may all be a show andit mav all come out in the wash, butright now it is more convincing thanever was Charley Van Doren. TheVice President operates under onealmost insuperable handicap. Didyou ever take a baby into a whore-house5 All prostitutes are devotedwives and mothers at heart. Aseveryone knows, the higher up yougo in the glass cheese boxes alongMad Alley, the less belief you findin the job. The brutal fact is, most. November 5, 1960 Draw ings by Dempster ot the Vice Presidents engineersof opinion are going to vote againsthim. This certainly blurs the im-age. ONE THING the show has notbeen able to overcome is the les-ser of two evils attitude of the manon the street. My grocer is a youngLebanese, married to the daughterof a Near East statesman. He said,All this foreign policy debate is somuch wind. What the United Statesshould do is give aid in kind — food,machinery, technical help — not inmoney. Nobody ever says that weare creating, all over the East, andprobably in Africa, a class of crimin-als who run these governments andgrow rich on American money whilethe people starve and turn dares say this. Look at Laos—look at Iran. I think Ill vote forKennedy; his bull last night wasjust a little bit closer to the facts. Across the street lives an enter-tainer whom Ive known since sheused to dance for the delectation ofStuds Lonigan and his friends in theGolden Lily at Fifty-
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