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When they left Washington together, Mitchell and Martin told their boss that they were off to the West Coast to visit their parents. Instead, they went to Mexico City, checked in at a cheap hotel, told the clerk that they would be staying about two weeks. Next morning they abruptly checked out, later boarded a plane for Havana. Last week the Defense Department glumly announced that from Cuba the pair had apparently "gone behind the Iron Curtain," and added, as reassuringly as it could, that the two men did not know any important secrets...
...emerald green ticket is doughty John Francis Kennedy, 55, a onetime stock clerk and WPA ditch digger whose name did him no harm in winning the maximum three terms as state treasurer (salary: $11,000). Now he wants to be Governor, and has at least a nominally clear field since the withdrawal of a Belmont fisherman named, of course, Kennedy (James M.). A pair of Kennedys are out to succeed incumbent Treasurer John Francis Kennedy: John Michael, 63, a Boston commercial painter, and John Boyle, 59, town manager of Saugus (pop. 20,000), who was an usher at the funeral...
...ambassador's son when they met at Oxford in 1939; they met again as naval officers in the South Pacific during World War II, and became close friends in Washington in the null when Jack was a freshman Congressman from Massachusetts and White a law clerk for Chief Justice Fred Vinson. ¶In an effort to bring Virginia back into the Democratic fold (in 1952 and 1956 the state went to Eisenhower), Kennedy appointed Charlottesville Lawyer William Battle, 39, son of former Governor John Battle, to direct his Virginia campaign. Bill Battle is another old Navy friend...
...grinned. Rising, he shuffled excitedly down the rows of his group, shouting "Let's go! Let's go!" Though the delegation had decided to split their vote among Kennedy, Johnson and Symington, one after another yelled, "O.K.!" and waved their arms in assent. Moments later the clerk called "WYOMING!" and Delegation Chairman Tracy McCracken, his white hair glistening in the spotlight, cried: "Wyoming's vote will make a majority for Senator Kennedy!" And through the thunderous tumult came Missouri's move to declare the nomination by acclamation (final roll-call tally: Kennedy, 806; Johnson, 409; Symington...
...ambitions for Cuba was made plain last week in its choice of an ambassador for Havana, Sergei Kudriavtsev. The name should be familiar. Kudriavtsev was, in the findings of a Canadian royal commission, the real head of the Canadian spy ring exposed by the defecting Russian cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko in 1945. The Russians then brazenly assigned him to the U.N. as adviser to the Soviet delegation in 1947, but the appointment stirred such bad publicity that he was recalled inside four months. Russia's man in Havana is obviously expected to head Soviet penetration of Latin America...