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...best-oiled Negro political machine in the U.S. is run by Chicago's Congressman William L. Dawson, 71 ("The Lion of the South Side"). Nobody knew it better last week than United Auto Workers' Political Action Committeeman Willoughby Abner, who got thrown out as president of the booming (13,300 members) Chicago chapter of the N.A.A.C.P. because he picked a personal fight with Dawson. A year ago Abner sensed that many a Chicago Negro felt Dawson was wrong in helping work out a compromise civil rights plank at the Democratic National Convention. Abner persuaded South Side Negroes...
...William C. Foster; onetime State Department director of policy planning Paul H. Nitze; Williams College President James Phinney Baxter III; onetime Secretary of Defense Robert A. Lovett; and Sprague Electric Co. Board Chairman Robert C. Sprague-admitted the probability of substantial enemy success in a missile attack. Said one committeeman: "That leaves the question of what to do against this thing called fallout. Maybe in six months some bright guy will invent a pill we can all take, but he hasn't yet. The only thing we have is the thing we learned about as far back...
After a bitter exchange of words, the School Committee agreed last night to let individual PTA groups use school buildings for their monthly meetings. But majority spokesman Mayor Edward Sullivan and committeeman James F. Fitzgerald emphatically refused to grant the same privileges to the city-wide PTA Council...
Mayor Edward J. Sullivan and the four majority members of the School Committee received an unmistakable rap on the knuckles from the voters for having attempted to appoint 17 teachers and coaches, without apparent qualifications, over objections from School Committeeman Judson T. Shaplin '42, associate dean of the Graduate School of Education...
...question. Whether the "good guys" or the "bad guys" win probably won't matter much to the Russian satellite or the trouble in the Middle East, but it is the stuff of American politics, and it is a phenomenon that no participant or spectator is likely to forget.Incumbent School Committeeman and Education School Dean JUDSON T. SHAPLIN '42 left talks CCA strategy with former Mayor and incumbent Council-man JOSEPH A. DeGUGLIELMO '29, while JAMES FITZGERALD tears into the CCA for refusing to discuss the qualifications of school appointees...