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...personal organizations, with little regard for the rapidly deteriorating Republican state machine. (Only at the end of the campaign did Maggie Smith publicly endorse Cross.) Topping all the other Republican problems was Cross's personal unpopularity with the voters. Too unimaginative, tough and cold even for Maine, honest Burton Cross ran an ad ministration that was distinguished, as one observer put it, "for an everlasting aptitude for ineptitude." Democrats made the most of his tactlessness, e.g., although he had conscientiously investigated the severe economic distress in Maine's coastal area, he had remarked that the people would have...
...regardless of party if I like him." Last week and thousands of other individualists in ironclad Republican Maine proceeded collectively to do the politically inconceivable: they elected a Democratic governor (for the first time since 1934). The winner by a resounding 22,000 votes over Republican Incumbent Burton Cross: Waterville Lawyer Edmund Sixtus Muskie, 40, in whose grey-blue eyes shines a light last seen in the early days of the New Deal...
When Small Business Administrator Wendell B. (for Burton) Barnes, 45, was vacationing with his wife and four children near Jacksonville, Fla. a fortnight ago, Hurricane Carol began kicking up off the Florida coast. Right away, Barnes packed his family into the car and headed north. He reached his desk just in time. One of Barnes's major tasks is to make emergency loans in disaster areas. The morning after Carol smashed across the New England coast, Barnes declared disaster areas in six states (New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine...
Last week the U.S. Navy announced that two U.S. icebreakers, the Navy's Burton Island and the Coast Guard's Northwind, had successfully cut their way through McClure on a joint U.S.Canadian expedition. Neither ship made a complete passage from the Arctic to the Atlantic Ocean; the Burton Island sailed through the Prince of Wales Strait from the west and turned around Banks Island to push westward again through McClure Strait (see map); the Northwind pushed eastward from the Arctic Ocean. Both ships used helicopters to scout the best passage through the ice. Unusually heavy melting of barrier...
...Mahoney represents Owen Lattimore, among other clients. Millard Tydings has a partnership with his father-in-law, onetime Ambassador Joseph Davies. Bennett Champ Clark and John Danaher, both former Senators, are judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals. One-third of the Supreme Court-Justices Hugo Black, Harold Burton and Sherman Minton-are former Senators...