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Teetering on the Border. With the regularity of the rollers on nearby Stinson Beach, good news came pouring in to Stevenson that day. In the District of Columbia primary he had clobbered Estes Kefauver by a two-to-one margin and won all six convention votes. In the Alabama primary...
Even for Texas, the fight was savage. Governor Allan Shivers, unbeaten and still packing a wallop after two decades in politics, was the official champ. Senator Lyndon Johnson, fast and clever, and seconded by implacable old House Speaker Sam Rayburn, was the challenger. The prize: control of the Texas Democratic...
Last March Rayburn moved fast: he proposed that Texas go to the national convention with Johnson in the dual role of favorite-son candidate and delegation chairman. Governor Shivers, anxious for a truce, agreed to the favorite-son proposition-but he was bound and determined that, come what may, he...
During the voting Allan Shivers was in Atlantic City, speaking at the 62nd annual convention of the Pennsylvania Bankers Association. Next day, his state's Democratic Party again in the hands of the loyalists, and his rival a presidential possibility of greatly increased stature, Shivers went to Washington for...
Last week, on the eve of the diocese's 119th annual convention, the Rev. H. Ralph Higgins, 53, of prosperous St.