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...served in the Army in Europe, ending up as a company commander in the 10th Armored Division. After the war, he turned to the law, earning his degree at night from the University of Baltimore in 1947. Shortly after, on the urging of a senior partner in his law firm, he changed his party affiliation from Democratic to Republican...
...While others made much of the "erosion" of Nixon support to Reagan and Rockefeller, Broder kept insisting that Nixon's delegate strength was still substantially intact. "I can't find any signs of motion that way," he said last week. He ran his own head counts, published firm numerical rundowns of key delegations. His sources were "not necessarily the top men in each delegation," he said. "Often a man farther down in the ranks can be a better source -particularly if he's dissatisfied with the way the delegation is heading...
...Richard B. Sobol to help defend Gary Duncan, a Negro boat captain accused of cruelty to juveniles in Plaquemines Parish, La. To handle Duncan's case and to aid other Southern Negroes, Sobol gave up a comfortable $24,000-a-year post with a top Washington, D.C., law firm and joined a group of attorneys who are serving the civil rights movement...
Died. Alfred Lester Cornwell, 84, former president (1946-54) and chairman (1951-56) of the F.W. Woolworth Co., who supervised the greatest growth in the firm's history; in Brookfield, Conn. "I have seen the company go from the age of the Stanley Steamer to the jet," said Cornwell on his retirement, and so he had, starting out as a stock boy in 1905 and climbing all the rungs to the top. He started the move into suburbia and expanded into South America, thereby boosting annual sales from $477 million to $700 million by the time he was ready...
...months in 1966 before stepping down to enter business. "I felt that in commerce," he explains, "I could make a real contribution to national development." Owner of one of the finest libraries on Africana in Kenya, Murumbi is chairman of a large sugar refinery, a Nairobi-based export-import firm, and an advertising agency that promotes, among other things, African trade abroad...