POLITICS: Operation Kennedy

Massachusetts' John Fitzgerald Kennedy last week added three more primary campaigns to his lengthy line of stepping stones toward the Democratic presidential nomination. In Annapolis he committed himself to Maryland's primary (May 17, 24 delegate votes) and got the reluctant backing of Maryland's Governor Millard Tawes, who had really wanted to run as a favorite son himself. In Charleston he took up a challenge thrown by Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey to fight it out in West Virginia (May 10, 25 delegate votes). In Gary he dealt himself into the

Indiana primary (May 3,...

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