DEMOCRATS: Search for a Fulcrum

In his rare moments of privacy last week, fast-running Jack Kennedy was restless and tense. He fidgeted with his tie clasp, rolled and squeezed a magazine or tapped his feet. All surface signs were pointing to a Kennedy victory, but the Democrats had a good dose of down-to- the-wire nervousness over Dwight Eisenhower's all-out support for Nixon, and over the nagging question of the religion vote.

Needle for Coattails. Outwardly, as Kennedy sped swift as the hungry hummingbird through more than a dozen states, he showed no concern over the religion question (though...

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