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Democrats Pick Los Angeles for Convention
On the sidelines, the Modern Language Association listed only four Broadway shows as "highly recommended" for the 5,000 college teachers attending the organization's annual convention during the vacation. J.B. shared this endorsement with Touch of the Poet, Two for the Seesaw, and West Side Story.
Beset by an incorruptible, court-appointed board of monitors and by U.S. Senator John McClellan's labor-rackets investigators, Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa last summer bought a bright stunt thought up by his lawyers*: Why not set up an investigating commission of his own? Promptly named as chairman of...
¶ Arkansas Fifth (Little Rock) District, where Segregationist Independent Dale Alford defeated respected eight-term Democrat Brooks Hays after a write-in campaign attacking Southern Baptist Convention President Hays's moderate stand on integration (TIME, Nov. 17). Protesting the outcome last week was not Hays but John F. Wells...
Replying amid wild applause ("Pour it on, George!") at the first convention of the merged New York A.F.L.-C.I.O., Meany last week dismissed Summerfield as "a little ward heeler from Detroit." Then he made his threat: "I have always said that we do not want our own political party, but...