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...lack of sentimentality, that he set a style which encouraged many authentic upper-class Wasps to take heart and to run for political office. John D. Rockefeller IV was one. He was followed by George Bush in Texas, William L. Saltonstall and John Winthrop Sears in Massachusetts and Bronson La Follette in Wisconsin. "In previous times, you had to be born in a log cabin to be elected to office," notes John Jay McCloy, who has been called the board chairman of the U.S. Wasp Establishment. "Now, to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth often means...
...repeat of his 1966 defeat of ex-Governor Sam Goddard, aided by a liquor-board scandal uncovered in the debris of Goddard's earlier regime. Wisconsin's Warren Knowles, 60, who was not favored to retain the governorship following a divorce earlier this year, managed to trounce Democrat Bronson LaFollette, 32, heir to a grand old Badger State name, but a man of little political experience. New Mexico's David Cargo, 39, barely squeaked past Democrat Fabian Chavez in a down-to-the-wire race. On the other hand, such Democrats as Missouri's Warren Hearnes, 45, North Dakota...
Several demonstrators had interviews with the recruiter. Bronson Harris, and told him their views about Dow, napalm, and the war. Harris said he pointed out to them the cancer research and other humanitarian projects in which Dow is involved...
...ultimate in snob appeal," said Daniel R. Bronson '67, a friend of Nightingale's and a proud toter of the button, "or it is a desperate attempt to seek one's own level...
Several of the other portrayals--particularly Daniel Bronson's and Leland Sanderson's--were in-jokes understood only by a really small in-crowd...