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...hard-core jock from Long Island (better known as "The Island" at Princeton beer blasts). Named to the ECAC All-East team of the week twice this season, he leads the Princeton team with five interceptions. He is a flashy, risk-taking linebacker, somewhat like Dartmouth's Murrey Bowden...
LORCAN J. BOWDEN...
...Bowden's departure as Commonwealth Secretary to become chairman of Britain's Independent Television Authority removed a leading opponent of any British deal with embargoed Rhodesia (see following story"). Douglas Jay's ouster as President of the Board of Trade-a post equivalent to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce-showed that Wilson is determined to pursue British membership in the Common Market, which Jay bitterly opposed. And by keeping James Callaghan as Chancellor of the Exchequer against the expectations of many political analysts, Wilson again signaled the West's financial community that he stands...
...Cabinet level, Richard Grossman, a favorite of Labor's rebellious left wing, moved from Housing to Leader of the House, a position that will make him responsible for corralling the rebel Laborites, whose abstentions have been embarrassing to the Prime Minister. The former Leader of the House, Herbert Bowden, moved to the Ministry for Commonwealth Affairs, replacing Arthur Bottomley, whose inability to settle the Rhodesian crisis made him some thing of a liability. Still, Bottomley was not expelled from the Cabinet; instead he was shifted to the Ministry for Overseas Development, a post that was made vacant by moving...
...story is a distillation of Texan political mores, which permit the closest of friends to castigate one another on the hustings and get drunk together when the votes are in. Though Governor John Bowden Connally Jr. considers Lyndon Baines Johnson his finest friend, he has leveled bitter criticism at the Johnson Administration of late. Connally's blasts began last month when the Justice Department ordered FBI agents to monitor a special 15-day voter registration period that followed the abolition of Texas' poll tax. Last week the state won a court fight against a U.S. attempt to extend...