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ATTORNEY GENERAL: Connecticut's Governor Abraham Ribicoff, Kennedy campaign strategist; or Denver Attorney Byron ("Whizzer") White, national chairman of Citizens for Kennedy...
...crush of female room applications has now forced the university to make over Dykstra Hall as well. Originally all male, it will now house girls on the top four of its ten floors. Last week Dean of Residence Byron Atkinson was busily arranging "suitable security measures." Among them: thick walls between male and female elevators. Since the fire-escape doors open down, Atkinson presumes that they are "safe" (if only the men are aggressors). "We are not planning to set up flamethrowers or machine guns at strategic passes," said he. "All we can do is try not to make...
...Paced by Byron ("Whizzer") White, national chairman of Citizens for Kennedy, Bobby headed for New York to face his biggest problem of the week-patching together the faction-torn New York Democratic organization...
...charged with luring not only independents and Republicans into the Kennedy camp, but also "dissident Democrats" - that is, Northern and Eastern Democrats who cannot stand Johnson, and Southern Democrats who quail at Jack. National Chairman: Denver Lawyer (and onetime University of Colorado All-America football hero) Byron ("Whizzer") White, 43. White was studying as a Rhodes scholar and Jack Kennedy was prowling around as the U.S. ambassador's son when they met at Oxford in 1939; they met again as naval officers in the South Pacific during World War II, and became close friends in Washington in the null...
...that has impressed and astonished the professional politicians of the nation. He speaks through hundreds of grey-flanneled local volunteers from Maine to Hawaii. He speaks words of honey or vitriol that would be impolitic coming from him through a chorus of guest campaigners, ranging from Colorado Football Star Byron ("Whizzer") White to Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (who attacked Hubert Humphrey's war record in the bitter West Virginia primary). But Jack Kennedy's presidential campaign, indeed his whole political life, has a quality rare in U.S. political history. He speaks with the voice of the remarkable Kennedy...