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...rally has gained new support during the past week, according to cochairman Peter Cummings '66, and approximately 5000 are expected at the Common...
Percy therefore proposed that Dirksen be chairman, that he himself take second place as cochairman, and that the third top delegation post, that of secretary, go to an all-out Goldwater man. Dirksen agreed, and so did U.S. Representative Ed Derwinski, the Goldwater leader in Illinois. Said Derwinski later: "I agree to Dirksen's taking over as chairman because I think Chuck should be absolved from the line of fire at the convention. He needs to be out of it for his campaign...
...sake of party harmony, Percy urged Ev against this course. "I can't afford to fight these Goldwater people," he said. Percy therefore withdrew as prospective cochairman, a Goldwater-leaner was named vice chairman, Dirksen left town mad, and Illinois Republicans were treated to the sight of their gubernatorial nominee, chosen overwhelmingly in a statewide primary, being reduced io the status of just another common delegate at the national convention...
Last week the first of a series of "Parties for Pierre" was held at the orange-roofed ocean-front home of Salinger's campaign cochairman, Pat Kennedy Lawford. The "Sweethearts" wandered around distributing bumper stickers reading I'M FOR PIERRE, and heart-shaped red balloons inscribed p.s. I LOVE YOU, in addition to the finger sandwiches. When the speechmaking was over, ladies clustered excitedly around Pierre, and he only broke away when a female aide whispered, "Doll baby, it's getting late on the campaign trail...
...first socialist Prime Minister, "Mac" MacDonald as Governor General in Malaya spurred the far-reaching social and economic reforms that helped turn the tide there against the Communists. Later he served as Commissioner-General for Southeast Asia, last year was handed the delicate task of presiding (with a Soviet cochairman) over the protracted negotiations that led to the coalition government in Laos. A breezily informal administrator, MacDonald has frequently horrified pukka sahibs by allowing his photograph to be taken while walking hand in hand with bare-breasted native beauties. Among East-of-Suez Blimps, he earned the bitter sobriquet...