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...Backers of Adlai Stevenson were not too grieved, because Stevenson has begged to be left out of the Oregon primary-although some saw Morse's entry as a way to cut the influence of Stevenson's ardent backer and Morse's archenemy, Fellow Senator Richard Neuberger. Backers of Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy were hurt some, but Teamster-backed Wayne Morse already has done nearly as much damage to Kennedy's chances as possible by attacking him up and down the state for his part in framing the Landrum-Griffin labor law. Most grieved were the friends...
...Alpine side, since De Gaulle came to power, Italy has become a staunch backer of France's policy in Algeria. On the Rhine, Adenauer's Germany has forged new links with its old enemy. And last week Spanish officials in Paris were humming contentedly about a new "era of good feeling...
...refused to tell anything more, but word soon leaked out that he had received Ike's assurances of detached neutrality in the event of a Rockefeller-Nixon battle for the G.O.P. nomination. ¶ Adlai Stevenson's ghostly candidacy got a blunt no-confidence vote from a onetime backer. Jack Matthews, president of the Texas-for-Stevenson clubs, told reporters of a recent encounter with Harry Truman, who greeted him, he said, with a snapper: "You're backing a loser." When Matthews disagreed, Truman said flatly: "Well, he is gonna get beat!" "By whom?" asked Matthews. Replied Truman...
DeGuglielmo is a backer of Senator John F. Kennedy '40, while Beer, National Chairman of A.D.A. is inclined to support Senator Hubert Humphrey or Governor G. Mennen Williams. An executive of the H.Y.D.C. suggested that Senator Williams will seek to gain support for Meyner tomorrow and will not hesitate to "plug" him tonight...
...about in his chats with the voters. Nonetheless, in the June primaries Democrat Burns outpolled Republican Quinn by a fateful 3-2. This was just the kind of odds that suited Quinn bes't. He cultivated the independents, pounded hard at the news that Burns's powerful backer, the I.L.W.U., was flirting with the idea of an alliance with Jimmy Hoffa's highly unpopular Teamsters. In the election, Quinn not only carried populous Oahu but captured thousands of votes that the I.L.W.U. was supposed to deliver from the outlying islands...