"I'm putting a thousand dollars on the table, and Hubert's putting only one out," mused Massachusetts' Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy one day last week as he studied stacks of memos in his home in Washington's proper Georgetown district. Before him was all available evidence for a cool-headed key decision: whether to enter Wisconsin's Democratic presidential primary, thus risk his front running place by racing Rear-Runner Hubert Humphrey in his own Minnesota backyard. Kennedy decided to take the risk because he felt that a win in this pivotal primary would beat down the resistance of party professionals who control the convention. "If...
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