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Members of the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa met last night to elect this year's Junior Eight. New members were chosen from a wide range of Houses and fields of concentration...
Britain's Heritage. Last week's election pitted two loose coalitions of parties that have grown up individually on the islands during the last two decades, as they have taken on greater measures of local self-government. The West Indies Federal Labor Party combined the ruling Socialist parties of Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados and some of the lesser islands; the less favored Democratic Labor Party united the rightist opposition movements on the two bigger islands plus a scattering of other backers. In a double upset, the Socialists ran second in Jamaica and Trinidad. But a nearly unanimous Socialist vote...
...shoulder in Denver's Shirley Savoy Hotel last week sat 1,200 farmers, farm wives, farm economists and farm politicians, gathered in biennial convention to 1) urge federal farm subsidies ever onward and upward, 2) call for the scalp of Republican Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson-and 3) elect onetime Typewriter Salesman James G. Patton, 55, to his 13th consecutive term as president of the liberal National Farmers Union. Cried Jim Patton, sounding the N.F.U.'s anti-Administration theme: "Our patience has been imposed upon by those in power chiseling away at nearly every program farmers worked...
Johnson exercises Senate control at all levels; he is the party leader, runs the policy committee, the party caucus, everything. He even took over the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee, which helps elect liberals and conservatives alike, by wangling its directorship for Kentucky's ex-Senator Earle Clements...
Despite the fact that he would have preferred Balbin, Aramburu will doubtless be happy to turn the country over to Frondizi on inauguration day, May 1. Day after the election Aramburu invited Frondizi to share a radio and television address to the nation, publicly embraced him on camera. That evening he took the winner home to dinner, later turned a Commerce Ministry office over to the President-elect as temporary headquarters while he studied the country's problems...