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...vote Mississippi delegation. Traditionally, Mississippi Republicans vote as a unit. Most observers expect that the unit rule will be retained and that Reagan will win the delegation, although some Ford supporters have threatened to bolt and back the President. The most influential member of the delegation, National Committeeman Clarke Reed, is being intensively courted by Ford: Reed was a guest of the President at a dinner for Queen Elizabeth in the White House Rose Garden. Reed expects the Mississippi delegation to vote for Reagan, but admits he certainly would urge it to switch if "it appears Ford...
...confident of winning all of Mississippi's 30 seats since the delegates have adopted the unit rule (whoever wins a majority, however narrow, gets all 30). Ford is pondering a last-minute trip to Mississippi. "The delegation is probably 2 to 1 for Reagan now," says G.O.P. National Committeeman Clarke Reed. "But who knows? Hard work could push it either...
...Chicago's State Street in their annual show of strength moved some of the biggest wheels in the nation's most powerful political machine. It was the annual St. Patrick's Day parade, but regardless of ethnic, racial or religious stripe, practically every precinct captain, ward committeeman and patronage worker was there. At the head of the throng-which included members of the city's bureau of forestry, bureau of electricity, bureau of sanitation and bureau of equipment service-stepped His Honor himself. Sporting an emerald hat and a shillelagh, Mayor Richard Joseph Daley marched jowl...
...fallen liberals, Charles Pierce and Peter G. Gesell, will be replaced by Independent David A. Fantini, a former committeeman and the second strongest winner in this year's contest, and Sara Mae Berman, the liberal candidate who drew attention to her campaign by literally running through city neighborhoods with leaflets and supporters at her tail...
Former school committeeman John J. Kerrigan was the only newcomer elected to the council ousting the incumbent O'Leary to grab the seventh seat on the nine-member council...