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...real disaffection down Mass. Ave. M.I.T. accounts for 20 per cent of the Coop's annual $15 million income. "We just can't afford to alienate M.I.T.," Brown said. "If we lost them, the Coop would be in real trouble." Roose and Profit, however, see little danger of a bolt by M.I.T. if the new directors keep their pledge to give clear priority to the profitable and smooth management of the Coop...
Predicting a House decision is obviously impossible at this point. Even if the Democrats retained control of a majority of the delegations, some individual Congressmen, under pressure from constituencies or conscience, might bolt the party. Many Southern Democrats, whether pro or anti-Wallace, might turn against the Administration leadership and vote the way their districts did-presumably for the Alabamian...
...votes behind Nixon-Agnew. On New Year's Day, the Communist Chinese strike the U.S. in Asia, perhaps in Viet Nam; a tide of reaction floods the nation. The House remains deadlocked on a presidential choice after days of belligerent debate. Wallace supporters scent victory and refuse to bolt to Nixon. The Senate, meantime, bows to the nation's angry mood and by two votes names Curtis LeMay to be Vice President. With the House still deadlocked on Jan. 20, LeMay becomes Acting President. (If the Senate tied before Jan. 20, Vice President Humphrey's vote would...
Denny's relations with his teammates became strained, particularly after he was quoted by a newspaper as calling the Tigers a "country-club ball team." He vigorously denied ever making the remark: "And may God strike me with a lightning bolt if that isn't true." Denny's traveling roommate, Pitcher Joe Sparma, promptly requested new accommodations, "just in case the Almighty should make a mistake and get the wrong...
...stronger measures were needed, and in June five battalions moved to launch sweeping search operations throughout South Blitar and its sandstone caves. In two months, they brought in 850 suspects, among them twelve members of the P.K.I.'s old Central Committee. They captured an arsenal of old bolt-action rifles, a few submachine guns and some homemade weapons. The army claimed that Oloan Hutapea, who took over the party's leadership after the death of D. N. Aidit in 1965, had been killed...