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Before he entered Doctors Hospital in Washington two weeks ago for his second major brain operation in eight months, California's Democratic Sena tor Clair Engle prepared two statements for the press. The first said that he was still a candidate for renomination to the Senate in his state's June 2 primary. The second announced that he was quitting the campaign because of his health...
...struggle concerns Senator Clair Engle, 52, who is recuperating from a brain operation. Most California politicians feel that Engle cannot possibly conduct a vigorous re-election campaign, let alone represent a key state in Washington, and they want him to retire. Engle's wife, Lucretia, is fighting hard to keep him in the race. The liberal California Democratic Council has already rejected Engle and instead has endorsed State Controller Alan Cranston. Governor Brown, a longtime political colleague of Engle's, announced his support for Cranston...
Last week on Michigan's Lake St. Clair, William R. Perrigo, 46, climbed into the cockpit of his 24-ft. Thunder Jet and rocketed around an eight-mile course to win the International Skeeter Class championship. A printing-company president, former commodore of Wisconsin's Pewaukee Ice Yacht Club, Bill Perrigo sails a 38-ft. Inland Scow in the summers, is an expert on both water and ice. But stepping from one to the other, he says, is a little bit like a glider pilot learning to blast off in a jet. While he was practicing three weeks...
...will be anxiously awaiting the reader response you will receive from your cover story on sex in the U.S. [Jan. 24]. I can imagine the multitude of approvals, smiles, smirks and smolderings of the American public with which you will be bombarded. (MRS.) CAROL K. STABLEIN St. Clair, Mich...
...study by the state party executive committee when it meets in Los Angeles next week. If the committee decides that Engle's condition will permit a vigorous campaign, the leaders told him, he will have full-fledged Democratic support; otherwise, California will have an "open" primary. As for Clair and Lucretia Engle, they still remained stubbornly hopeful. She said she sometimes feels "bitter or disillusioned" about the many doubts that have been cast on her husband's recovery. But, she continued, "the answer is performance-and my dearly beloved husband and candidate will provide that performance...