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Protest & Veto. To succeed O'Donoghue, Judge Letts appointed former FBI Agent Terence F. McShane. 33. Naturally, Hoffa protested. Reason: trim, handsome Terry McShane had investigated Hoffa for the FBI in 1957, twice testified against him in the wiretap case. Fortnight ago. splitting 2 to 1 in favor of Hoffa, the U.S. Appeals Court in Washington bounced McShane, ruled that either the Teamsters or the insurgents could block any appointee for the chairmanship on "reasonable grounds...
Delaware (3): Anti-Catholicism looms large in southern part of state, but Kennedy's brief visit a fortnight ago narrowed small G.O.P. lead. NIXON...
...Until a fortnight ago, when the island's three Roman Catholic bishops issued a pastoral letter forbidding Catholics to vote for Governor Luis Muñoz Marin and his Popular Democratic Party, Puerto Rico's gubernatorial campaign was a race without an issue. Muñoz' opponent, Luis Ferré, candidate of the Statehood Republican Party and a partner in the island's largest private enterprise (Ferré Industries), had demanded a plebiscite on statehood, but foxy old Muñoz sidetracked that issue. His party slipped a rule through the legislature that no statehood plebiscite...
...game for his three years as a forward at the University of Cincinnati. But at 6 ft. 5 in. and 205 Ibs., Robertson was too small to play forward with the pros, would have to be moved back to the strange position of guard. This week, after only a fortnight of play, the Big O's doubters are quietly swallowing their predictions: playing for the Cincinnati Royals, Rookie Guard Robertson is the new sensation of the N.B.A...
...FINANCING hit another obstacle. TWA's eccentric owner, Howard Hughes, who cleared the way for a $300 million loan a fortnight ago by agreeing to relinquish control of the line, backed out of the agreement...