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Negro voters in both Philadelphia and Louisville helped Republicans overcome their disastrous nationwide showing in the presidential election last year. In Philadelphia, 35-year-old Arlen Specter, assistant counsel of the Warren Commission, which investigated President Kennedy's assassination, used implausible means to achieve the seemingly impossible. A registered Democrat, he ran for district attorney on the Republican ticket, with the support of Americans for Democratic Action. Specter won, despite a 2-to-l Democratic registration edge and hoots of "Benedict Arlen" and "Specter the Defector" by his former Democratic colleagues. Specter not only assailed the inefficiency of Incumbent...
...Dallas' Parkland Hospital discovered that John F. Kennedy was wearing the rigid, corsetlike brace with which he supported his ailing back. Had Kennedy not worn it that November morning in 1963, he might conceivably be alive today. In Philadelphia last week an assistant counsel of the Warren Commission, Arlen Specter, pointed out that Harvey Oswald's first bullet, which struck the President in the neck, would not have proved fatal. Had J.F.K. not been wearing the brace, he suggested, the impact would probably have knocked him out of the line of fire. As it was, said Specter...
Last week the system was labeled "an iceberg of corruption" in a 515-page report compiled by Pennsylvania's Assistant Attorney General Arlen Specter, 35, a liberal Democrat turned liberal Republican, who also happens to be running for election as Philadelphia's district attorney against Incumbent James C. Crumlish Jr. Predictably, Democrat Crumlish blasted Specter's report as purely political. All the same, it was a well-documented shocker-the work of 27 state investigators who toiled for ten months at the request of Attorney General Walter E. Alessandroni...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Part II of a profile of Songwriter Harold Arlen, including old film clips of Judy Garland singing Arlen's Over the Rainbow and The Man That Got Away...
Married. Margaret Ann Goldwater, 20, younger of Barry's two girls; and Richard Arlen Holt, 26, junior executive with California's Wilshire Oil Co.; at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Phoenix...