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...which sent the first Roman Catholic to the White House and the first black since Reconstruction to the Senate, a Jesuit priest, Robert Drinan, is seeking a Democratic congressional nomination. Drinan, 49, former vice president and law school dean of Boston College, has the support of a citizens' caucus as he seeks to oust Incumbent Democrat Philip Philbin, 71, a 14-term veteran who is vice chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Though Philbin is favored, Drinan's liberalism and antiwar stand are popular with his district's relatively affluent, middle-class voters. These qualities, combined...
...Republican senatorial nomination for his personable, pretty wife Lenore, a onetime Hollywood starlet, who worked as Lili Damita's stand-in and had a bit part in a Greta Garbo film. His efforts proved insufficient last week to capture the necessary 75% of the delegates at a party caucus. But Mrs. Romney, 60, who had earlier insisted that she would run only if her party drafted her, declared as a candidate anyway. Though she is the kind of candidate who makes a poor target for opponents, Lenore will probably face a primary challenge from Conservative State Senator Robert...
Democrats chafe bitterly under the stagnant leadership of Speaker John W. Mc-Cormack, 78. In a party caucus last week, Representative Jerome R. Waldie of California offered a resolution of no confidence in McCormack's stewardship. Waldie's thrust was laid aside by a vote of 192 to 23, but the appearance of overwhelming support for McCormack was misleading. Fully aware that Waldie had no chance of success, many reform-minded members held their fire, but hoped to fight with more success another...
...walkouts followed a tense debate over a proposal by the Revolutionary Women's Caucus of the November Action Coalition (NAC) that the demonstration be strongly focused "on the oppression of women." The Student Mobilization Committee, (SMC), expressing fears that some delegates were attempting to obstruct the conference, caucused in Kresge Auditorium, while NAC withdrew to the Student Center...
Pilkington, who is a member of the Worker-Student Alliance caucus of SDS, received the most severe punishment because he participated in the SDS sit-in at University Hall Nov. 19 as well as both OBU takeovers...