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Dangerous Footing. It was all very noisy, but it should not have seemed so shocking. The offering of jobs, in return either for support or for the withdrawal of candidacy, is about as old as politics itself. In 1860, Abraham Lincoln's aides promised Political Boss Simon Cameron a place as Secretary of War in return for the Republican convention backing of Cameron's key Pennsylvania delegation. In 1951, President Harry Truman appointed Minnesota Republican Luther Youngdahl to a federal district judgeship (a position he still holds) to remove Youngdahl from an impending contest with Democrat Hubert Humphrey...
...property damage, perhaps a billion dollars' worth, but took few lives. The well-warned people of coastal Louisiana and Texas had fled to safety in the greatest mass exodus in U.S. history. Only a comparative few were killed. There was no mass tragedy as when Hurricane Audrey flooded Cameron, La., in 1957 and killed 590 people...
...CAMERON Fort Lauderdale...
...Petaling Jaya, Dunlop has begun construction of a $25,000,000 tire factory, and a Japanese Malayan iron and steel plant will be operating at Lunut by 1964. A massive hydroelectric plant, mostly financed by a $35.6 million loan from the World Bank, is under construction in the Cameron Highlands...
...Died. Cameron Shipp, 57, top Hollywood ghostwriter whose clients ranged from Billie Burke (With a Feather on My Nose) to Lionel Barrymore (We Barrymores), and who rebuffed critics of his craft with the argument that "after all, Moses was the first 'as-told-toer' "; of a heart attack; in Glendale, Calif...