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When he first went to California, Day declared that he was through with politics, but soon changed his mind. He became a backer of Governor-to-be Edmund ("Pat") Brown, earned an appointment to the finance committee of the Democratic State Central Committee, helped form Democratic Associates, a committee of conservative Democrats who sponsor business-minded candidates for office. Day is articulate and abrupt, an effortlessly efficient manager. No mossback, Day manages to preserve the respect (if not the adoration) of both right and left in California's mixed-up politics...
...civil rights legislation, statehood for Alaska and Hawaii, construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway, relinquishment of federal claims to control of the tidelands. As a freshman Congressman, Nixon supported Harry Truman's program of aid to Communist-menaced Greece and Turkey, and he has remained a steadfast backer of foreign...
...Senate race, labor-backed Democratic Incumbent Pat McNamara, 65, kept busy denying that his recent prostate operation was for cancer. The Republican who was nominated to run against him is also no stranger to physical infirmity: Congressman Alvin Bentley, 41, a multimillionaire by inheritance and an early backer of the late Senator Joe McCarthy, was almost killed on the floor of the House in March 1954 when three armed Puerto Rican nationalists in the gallery began spraying the House floor with bullets. The most seriously wounded of five Congressmen was Bentley: a bullet pierced his liver and stomach...
...truce in as strange a war as the Republican Party had ever seen. It started in October 1958, when Rocky was running for Governor in his first try for elective office. He was so ambitiously bent on projecting his own rather than a party image that a top Rockefeller backer urged Nixon to cancel a scheduled TV speech in New York City lest he spoil that image. Nixon came to New York and had a well-publicized breakfast with Rocky...
Growth companies have not only created a new breed of management millionaires but have added some hefty figures to existing fortunes. Millionaire Laurance Rockefeller, a backer of Bos ton's Itek Corp. and its biggest stock holder, bought 259,765 shares at an average cost of $1.41. His present 195,197 shares in the company, now discussing a merger with Chicago's Seebring Corp., were worth $12 million last week. More than 1,100 Texas Instruments employees, buying stock under a special purchase plan, have spent just over a million and a half for stock now worth more...