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When he was 21, Vellucci decided that he himself would take action. His subsequent political career reads like a do-it-yourself handbook for nascent, but hard-bitten local politicians. That first year he was eligible to vote, 1936, when a strong machine of the classic type controlled Cambridge, Vellucci ran as an independent candidate for the Democratic City Committee. Not only did be defeat hand-picked machine candidates like "imbedded" old pro, Reggis Murphy--he topped the ticket. But, he was "still a novice, just learning...
...hesitated at the door of Mr. Khrushchev's office, startled by the thuds and sounds of heavy breathing that came from inside. Surely it wouldn't do to walk in while Mr. K. was enforcing party discipline on his secretary? But I reminded myself that I was a hard-bitten newspaper man, and opened the door anyway...
...that Rayburn could no longer get any cooperation from the Republicans. Compromiser Joe Martin was deposed from the Republican leadership by Indiana's tough, uncompromising Charlie Halleck (and last week registered his vote against Halleck and for Rayburn). Halleck filled the Republican seats on Rules with hard-bitten party men and happy days were gone again...
...warren. The physical and psychological effects of being beaten in strange territory were evidently still with him, for as he approached his old home, he moved uncertainly. When the secondary buck rushed to attack, the old king put up a feeble defense, and at last ran away, badly bitten, to die-less of wounds, we felt, than of sheer chagrin...
Died. Negley Farson, 70, bestselling author (The Way of a Transgressor) and onetime foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News. Grandson of a Union Army general, hard-living Negley Farson drew the source material for his hard-bitten books from careers as an oil salesman in the U.S., engineer in England, arms salesman in Czarist Russia, aviator in Egypt; of a heart attack; in Georgeham, North Devon, England...