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...struggle for the Democratic nomination was between Garofoli and James Carney, a multi-moderately liberal leanings. Stokes and Carney were very close, since the latter had been a major financial backer in the Mayor's previous campaigns. All indications pointed to a runaway victory for Garofoli in an election to be decided by white Democrats. But Carl Stokes saw an opportunity to personally defeat Garofoli (and Stanton), and to get back at those who had been his bitterest opponents, the men who had refused to accord him "basic respect." Over the last weekend of the primary campaign, a taped message...
...John Schmitz, a John Bircher who represents Nixon's home district in California: "If you get a reputation for being an early riser, you can sleep till 11." Says Chicago Businessman W. Clement Stone, a large contributor to conservative campaign coffers and Nixon's biggest 1968 financial backer: "After 20 years, we'd better face life as it is. Good common sense dictates that we take a hard look at that situation and put aside our emotions...
Trevino quit his job at Hardy's in 1965 and decided to go to the Panama Open with an aspiring Dallas sponsor. Unfortunately, neither Lee nor his backer could afford the plane fare, so the two men spent 71 days driving to Panama, sleeping in the car, grinding up horse trails and bouncing down boulder-strewn river beds. Trevino placed fifth in the tourney, won $716.16, and flew back to Dallas. For the rest of that year, he struggled along, giving lessons and entering small pro-am tournaments around the state. As a teacher, he was known...
...joined him in favoring a Government-run National Institute of Education-now drawing bipartisan support in Congress-that could expand research. The U.S. spends 4.6% of its health budget and about 10% of its military budget on research and development. In education, says Indiana Congressman John Brademas, an institute backer, the R. and D. costs are now less than one-third...
...Nuremberg. In 1958, Dodd won the first of his two Senate terms and soon zeroed in on subversives from his post on the Internal Security Subcommittee. He was a longtime champion of gun-control legislation and Senate sponsor of the 1968 gun-control bill, as well as a principal backer of last year's Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act. In 1965, some of Dodd's former staff members leaked material indicating that the Senator had put campaign contributions to personal use. A Senate investigation ended in a censure motion, carried by a vote...