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...sensitivity? Where is the musician? Ah, but this irresistable old war-horse (or more accurately, warpig) has finally gotten the treatment it deserves. For the honest few who revere the Symphony not as serious music but as a macabre, hilarious circus, the HRO's performance was mad bliss. After a reasonably straight face through the verbose Reveries, the drippy waltz of the Ball episode, and the charmingly empty Scenes in the Country, everyone let loose...
...species, it invites pruning. "Break Through!" Thus, in recent months, a host of top Republicans, from House Leader Ford to Senate Leader Everett Dirksen and Kentucky's Senator Thruston Morton, have taken pains to dissociate the G.O.P. from the extremist John Birch Society. G.O.P. National Chairman Ray Bliss read the Birchites out of the party again last week during the biennial Western...
...that was only a necessary backward step toward the goal of providing accommodations for all Republicans-wherever they fit in the party spectrum. Last week's G.O.P. victories in New York and other cities, argued Bliss, should provide forward impetus to our "efforts to strengthen the Republican position in metropolitan areas of the nation." He added: "If you have the right candidate, you can break through." That notion was vigorously seconded by Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton. "The adage that Republicans cannot win in the big cities," said he, "is now out the window...
...Haven, Democratic Mayor Richard C. Lee, 49, the brains and muscle power behind the city's model $390 million urban-renewal program, handily won his seventh consecutive two-year term, beating his Republican challenger 33,992 to 17,099. - In Akron, home town of G.O.P. National Chairman Ray Bliss, Republicans captured the mayor's office for the first time since 1951. The victor: John S. Ballard, 43, a onetime FBI agent who won his political spurs as a special prosecutor in an Ohio gambling cleanup, went on to make an impressive record as a crime-busting county prosecutor...
Turning to national politics, Volpe singled out Ray Bliss, Republican national chairman, as the man to bring the party back to national power. "Bliss is no fly-by-night proposition," Volpe said, "He has the organizational ability...