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Rehnquist is an active Goldwater-style Republican who worked as a precinct committeeman during the presidential campaign of his fellow Arizonan. But even those who disagree with his conservative views concede his keen intelligence and professional skill. Born in Milwaukee in 1924, Rehnquist went to college and law school at Stanford, made Phi Beta Kappa, graduated first in his law class, and then won the honor of serving a year as legal clerk to the late Justice Robert H. Jackson...
...complexity is that there are so many men in the Democratic Party who have worked for one or more of the Kennedys in their many campaigns that it is difficult for a serious candidate to find a seasoned staff without including some of them. Examples: New York Democratic National Committeeman John F. English and former Massachusetts Democratic State Chairman Lester Hyman are working for Senator Edmund Muskie. Former John Kennedy Campaign Organizer Hy Raskin is on Washington Senator Henry Jackson's unofficial campaign staff. At the same time, such key Kennedy operatives as Ted Sorensen and Kenneth...
...organized pacification teams are known. The committee led the way to a nearby village where, they said, 700 of the 1,300 residents had been slaughtered by rampaging Bengalis. The feature attraction was a well that was choked with human skeletons and reeked of decomposing flesh. Said one peace committeeman: "You have never seen such atrocities...
...army was not at all eager, however, to let the journalists look around on their own. While walking through Natore, TIME Correspondent Louis Kraar reported last week, "a bearded peace committeeman kept interrupting every time anyone spoke to me. Finally, I escaped him-and found myself in the Hindu section of town. It was totally destroyed, a pile of rubble and ashes. As I walked, a young Bengali pressed close and explained that he was a student. 'We are living in terror of the army,' he told me. 'Until today, when you came, they have been killing...
...Meanwhile, Krause had been contacted by Chris Bailey, a school committeeman in Seattle notorious for attracting area students to Harvard, his alma mater. Bailey convinced Krause to apply and told Harvard not to let anyone else pester Krause...