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Working as a team, Ohio's Republican Governor C. (for nothing) William O'Neill, 46, and Senator John Bricker, 65, crisscrossed the Buckeye State last week in an aggressive new bid for votes. Boomed...
...Neill: "Fear has spread over Ohio. There is use of power to instill fear. I deplore the thought that Ohio citizens should be afraid." Roared Bricker: "If ever there was a clearcut call for non-partisan action, it was for protection of the union rank and file against the abuses of labor racketeers, the embezzlers, the professional goons, the Hoffas and the Becks." So saying, O'Neill and Bricker plumped unequivocally for a hotly debated Ohio right-to-work bill on next month's ballot. Explained a G.O.P. strategist: "We're taking a chance on it helping...
Married. Jeff Donnell, 37, actress who is giving up her job as Comedian George Gobel's TV wife; and Manhattan adman John Bricker II, 39; he for the second time, she for the third (her second: Actor Aldo Ray); in Van Nuys, Calif...
...Ohio's John Bricker who provided the clinching argument for politics over principle. On point of principle, Bricker had voted against the farm freeze. On point of principle, he assured his colleagues, he would vote to sustain a veto. But in the interests of helping farm-belt Republicans get elected this fall, he hoped the President would sign-and he favored a petition to that effect. That did it: the Republicans voted by show of hands to urge Ike to sign the bill that he had called a "180° turn in the wrong direction...
...invited "all men of all nations" to its chairs, outbid the President. Eisen-hower simply held the door open to talks, but required credentials of good faith for those who want to pass the threshold. It will indeed be a novel spectacle, though not one unwelcome to Senator Bricker, if the Senate tries to assume a forceful role in foreign policy decisions...