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...tour, courtesy of Look Magazine, and he was having a Look-see around Viet Nam. Suddenly an aide burst into the room to tell Pierre that Washington was calling. "It was the hot line from the White House," said Salinger afterward, telling him that California's Democratic Senator Clair Engle, 52, was dead of a cancerous brain tumor. Immediately Salinger broke off his visit and flew home...
...Died. Clair Engle, 52, California's flamboyant Democratic Senator; of a brain tumor, following two brain operations that left him partially paralyzed; in Washington (see THE NATION...
...moment of pathos came when the clerk arrived at the name of California Democrat Clair Engle, who has undergone two brain operations and has not appeared in the Senate since April. For this occasion, Engle, smiling gallantly, had been wheeled into the chamber. When the clerk called his name, Engle tried to speak, but could not. Finally he lifted his left arm, pointed at his head, and nodded...
Lucretia Engle, wife of popular incumbent Democratic Senator Clair Engle, who was forced to withdraw from the primary after his second brain operation since August, came out for Sal inger. And Jackie Kennedy said: "President Kennedy valued his advice and counsel on all major matters." Salinger's past association as press secretary to Jack Kennedy clearly was his best issue. He constantly recalled the crises through which he had gone with the late President. In the final hours of the campaign, Pierre's people mailed 4,000,000 postcards, each bearing a blue-bordered photo of Kennedy...
...latest Field poll shows Cranston 33%, Salinger 27% and Incumbent Clair Engle, whose name remains on the ballot despite his withdrawal...