National Affairs: Wagons Ho!

The woods along Oregon's presidential primary trail are full of eager political explorers, but of all of them, none is so determined as Massachusetts' Democratic Senator John Kennedy. Last week Jack Kennedy's wagon train was pounding hell for leather up the trail toward primary day next May, leaving the others well fogged in the dust.

Of no great moment was the announcement by Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse that, despite the pleas of "thousands," he would not permit his name to be put on the primary ballot as a favorite son. More to the point was...

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