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...SOUTH DAKOTA SENATOR GEORGE McGOVERN...
...word charisma keeps recurring-Lindsay in the long run seems an elegant addition to the progressive wing of the Democrats. More immediately he presents unwanted problems. Obviously the announced and unannounced presidential candidates do not welcome competition, and their greetings last week ranged from tepid to frosty. South Dakota's Senator George McGovern unkindly recalled the Agnew nominating speech. Washington's Senator Henry Jackson declared: "If you join the church one Sunday, you can't expect to be chairman of the board of deacons the next Sunday...
...Depression '30s, a lanky South Dakota doctor named Francis Townsend won the backing of millions of elderly Americans with his plan for $200-a-month pensions for everyone over 60. Today his scheme, which most economists once dismissed as a crackpot idea, seems almost conservative. It has been upstaged by a combination of Social Security and private pension plans that offer retirement income to workers as a matter of course. Still, the difference between plans and payoffs is often painful. Many of those who lost their jobs during last year's recession and this summer's slow...
...charge, made in the Republican National Committee's peppery publication Monday, has surface validity. The presidential candidacy of South Dakota Senator George McGovern seems to have little steam of its own. Polls indicate that only 5% of the nation's registered Democrats and 6% of Democratic county chairmen prefer him over the other potential Democratic candidates. His camp abounds with "Kennedy men": Advisers Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and John Kenneth Galbraith, Robert Kennedy's Press Secretary Frank Mankiewicz, Writers Richard Goodwin and Adam Walinsky, plus other lesser-known figures. President Kennedy's Press Secretary Pierre Salinger will...
Died. Gerald P. Nye, 78, Republican Senator from North Dakota for 19 years and one of the nation's foremost isolationists; in Washington, D.C. A crusading country editor and partisan of 1924 Progressive Party Presidential Candidate Robert La Follette, Nye was appointed to fill a Senate vacancy in 1925. He arrived on Capitol Hill sporting bulbous yellow shoes and an "oaken-bucket haircut," but soon dispelled the notion that he was a bumpkin: he used his seat on the Public Lands Committee to expose the Teapot Dome oil-lease scandal. A steadfast foe of America's entry into...