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Inside Happenings. In the hope of nudging other Republicans to the same conclusion, Romney detoured the poverty pilgrimage long enough for a chat with New York's Mayor John Lindsay and a 21-hour political strategy dinner with Governor Rockefeller, the Michigander's strongest backer. Though he could write a Baedeker on New York's slums and the avoidance of riots, Lindsay decided not to join Romney on a trip through Bedford-Stuyvesant and Harlem. "I think it is better if he goes alone rather than be inhibited by the presence of other officials," the mayor said...
...concert backer cited the universal appeal of "pleasant music, outdoors in the "ummertime," but another summed it up more tartly. "We're sick of the 20th century," said he, "we hear it on the radio and TV all the time...
...permitting undergraduates a wider choice of courses outside their major field evolved after several months of study by the undergraduate course-of-study committee, of which I was then a member. All committee meetings were attended by Georges May, dean of the undergraduate college, who was an early enthusiastic backer of the plan and to whom the major credit for its eventual acceptance is due. In contrast, Brewster was originally skeptical, fearing with some justification that it might lead science students to avoid the liberal arts completely, and liberal arts students to neglect the sciences. However, his pragmatic spirit prevailed...
...Representative from Ohio. The real issue--how the chairman can make the YRNF a more effective instrument for attracting young people and for electing GOP candidates--disappeared as the Syndicate forwarded a new issue: who was the most conservative candidate and who was the most devout Goldwater backer. Lukens won, as did Syndicate candidate Tom Van Sickle in 1965 and McDonald this year. Their opponents were sometimes conservatives too, but the Syndicate latched to the Goldwater philosophy as an instrument to forward its own power. Never, however, has ideology or programs been the central basis for the Syndicate organization, even...
Peter C. Pierce, president of the Boston University YR's and a Percy backer, rose and challenged the credentials of a crucial bloc of seven conservatives. "They are not dues-paying YR's," Pierce declared. "I know, because they come from B.U. and I am chairman of B.U.'s delegation to this convention. They are members of Young Americans for Freedom [a right wing group...