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...Chicago's Palmer House to scan a list of some 20 hopefuls-among them Steve Mitchell, Stevenson's old aide and former Democratic national chairman. After three hours Daley & Co. brought out of the hat a name from among the "also mentioned"-Chicago Superior Judge Richard B. Austin. Quickly the word was telephoned to the Cook County delegation, which controls the committee by a 13-12 vote. The result: after token resistance from downstaters, Judge Austin was nominated unanimously on the first ballot as the hand-picked candidate of the Chicago machine...
...Dick Daley, Candidate Austin had obvious merits to outweigh the fact that outside of Chicago he is practically unknown ("Who is he?" asked a dismayed downstate delegate when the word first got to Springfield). Richard Bevan Austin. 55, is an Episcopalian and will add diversity to a ticket on which there are already four Catholics. He has few enemies in the party, and his personal life-as family man (three sons), Chicago attorney (since 1926), assistant state's attorney (16 years) and judge (since 1953)-has been impeccable...
...Democrats, however, Austin's merits go beyond that. Their hope of unseating Governor William G. Stratton lies chiefly in splattering him (although he was not involved) with the scandal in which former Republican State Auditor Orville E. Hodge succeeded in looting the treasury of more than $1,000,000 (TIME, July 30 et ante). To do this they are in need of a fierce and able prosecutor. In small (5 ft. 41n.), stern-faced Judge Austin, who assisted in prosecuting some notable crime cases in his years as assistant state's attorney, they hope they have found their...
After last July's Texas Democratic primary election, there was hardly a political seer in the state who did not see the doors of the governor's mansion in Austin swinging wide open for quiet, conservative U.S. Senator Price Daniel. Home from Washington to run for the job he had always wanted, he easily outdistanced five other hopefuls, led his nearest opponent, oft-defeated Austin Attorney Ralph Yarborough, by 165,000 (TIME, Aug. 6). But Daniel did not get a majority of the votes, was forced into a runoff primary with Yarborough, and that was a different story...
When British Motor Corp. (Morris and Austin) laid off 6,000 workers made "redundant" by the falling car sales abroad and at home, trade unions ordered 51,000 workers to quit in protest. Much to everyone's surprise, more than half the workers reported to work anyway, crashing through mass picket lines in trucks, fistfighting their way through the gates. Most of those fired quickly found other jobs in the Midlands. The unions, however, stubbornly held out for reinstatement of the whole lot. Yet mobility of labor is one of Britain's needs of the hour...