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...Angeles Bureau Chief Marshall Berges took on the job of providing an overview from the state government and community leaders. Martin Sullivan, recently arrived from Montreal, went into the East Los Angeles barrios to distill the Mexican-American way of life-and found the Chicanos strikingly similar in mood and plaint to their French-Canadian cousins in Quebec. Sandra Burton observed the importation of "green-card" nonunion workers from Mexico and covered the climax of a 100-mile march between El Centro and Calexico, in which, she reports, the heat hit 120° and blisters "were like merit badges...
...than 25 members opposed the nomination; another estimate put the opposition at ten. Finch assured Nixon that his appointee had the pluck and wit to ride out the storm. Meanwhile, the A.M.A.'s lobby operation was not idle. Hints began to circulate that Knowles proposed socialized medicine. Congressmen found that the A.M.A. was even propagandizing their family doctors...
Logical Choice. Shortly after Finch was appointed Secretary of HEW, he dutifully checked with the American Medical Association about whom it would prefer for the Assistant Secretary's job. The association proposed Dr. Clarke Wescoe, outgoing chancellor of the University of Kansas. When Finch called Wescoe, he found that he was unavailable. Having done the A.M.A.'s bidding -and miffed that the A.M.A. had not checked to see whether its candidate was willing-Finch contacted Knowles...
...next day, in the course of episodic conversations during a five-hour White House visit, Finch found himself losing the argument over Knowles. Finally the President gave his old friend and longtime political partner the word: Knowles was not worth the bitter fight. Finch issued a statement in which he loyally-if not convincingly-took "full responsibility for the delay of this appointment...
...last man connected with his case, the film has the effrontery to play him for an existential hero at odds with an unfriendly world. Weekend, deprived of its central motor and direction of characters' sensibility, may well be "wandering in the cosmos." But Bullitt, which betrays sensibility, was certainly "found on the scrap-heap...