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...Republican National Committee next day, Nixon called upon Republicans to discuss national issues, but to "disagree on them without being disagreeable." The Republican Party "will win if we're united,'' he said. "We'll lose if we are divided." The committeemen and state chairmen gave him a standing ovation. At that point it seemed that Nelson Rockefeller's firecracker, having made everybody jump, had left not a tremor behind...
...moment of victory was almost anticlimactic. There was no battering-ram cloture vote to beat Southern filibusters into silence (although the Southern minority of 18 included the chairmen of nine powerful Senate committees). The Senate galleries were virtually empty; not a cheer rang through the chamber. But, in a sense, the lack of dramatics was a tribute to superb legislative technique. Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and Republican Leader Everett Dirksen had allowed plenty of time for Northern liberals and Southern diehards to talk themselves out of election-year invective, then smoothly pushed through the House-approved (TIME, April...
From the Negro stemmers to Chairman Gray, most of the company's 14,000 employees are local folk. Like Gray, whose father and uncle were both Reynolds chairmen, many are the second or third generation to work for Reynolds. Twelve of the 15 directors are company officers who meet weekly at an informal luncheon, can be rounded up in ten minutes at any other time if anything important comes up. Reynolds' factory workers (35% 0, them Negro) are so loyal to the firm that they have kept Reynolds the only major nonunion firm in the industry, even though it pays...
Supporting this maneuver is Humphrey's strong majority in the state party organization (six out of ten district chairmen announced for him, as did 35 out of 71 county chairmen), but they stand less than an even chance to outwit State Chairman Pat Lucey, shrewd mainstay of Kennedy's organization...
Petri and the other members of the committee, Eugene H. Zagat '61 and Thomas R. Wardell '62, plan to take this "brief" of the report to the chairmen of various student organizations to find out whether or not they would avail themselves of such a service...