Striding buoyantly along San Francisco's Eddy Street on a corner-to-corner, hand-kneading, quip-crackling campaign tour, Candidate Adlai Stevenson passed the California College of Chiropody and laughed at the yell from students: "Hi Adlai, how's your feet?" Shouted Stevenson: "I'm going to come over there and lay down." A member of Stevenson's entourage murmured: "That's the first time I ever heard you make a grammatical error." Grinned Stevenson, whose Ivy League diction has been counted a political debit by his advisers: "I've got orders to make one grammatical error a day." Orders or no orders, Stevenson was acting like a candidate...
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