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Died. Earl Eisenhower, 70, younger brother of former President Dwight Eisenhower, who once served a term in the Illinois State Legislature; of a heart attack; in Scottsdale, Ariz. A staid businessman for 35 years, Earl plunged into politics in 1964, was top Republican vote getter in an unprecedented at-large election for the Illinois House of Representatives. Two years later he ran for clerk of heavily Democratic Cook County. He lost by a substantial margin and retired to Arizona...
...Billionaire H. L. Hunt; Paul Pewitt, who has a $100 million fortune from Texas oil and Idaho potatoes; and M. H. Marr, an oilman worth about $10 million. However much money he has, the average Wallace booster is what Political Analyst Samuel Lubell calls a "recent getter," someone who has worked hard for what he has and is fearful of losing...
During three terms as Governor, Hughes established himself both as an outstanding liberal and a formidable vote-getter. When he decided to run for the U.S. Senate at the urging of the late Robert Kennedy, Republican Incumbent Hickenlooper decided to retire. Pitted against Hughes, a genial 6-ft 2-in., 230-lb. giant, is moderate Republican David Stanley, 40, an able state legislator. At one point, Hughes looked like a sure bet. But he now figures he will need 150,000 to 200,000 votes from Republicans to save himself. Conceded Hughes last week: "It's going to require...
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES Humphrey and Nixon have both promised to sell America's crack Phantom bombers to Israel if elected to the White House. The pledge is undoubtedly a good vote-getter, but it is also disastrous foreign policy...
...learn a lesson easily, Rose took a dive after a hard-hit ball in the July 5 game against the Los Angeles Dodgers. The National League's No. 1 vote getter in All-Star balloting, Rose sat out the classic with a broken thumb, spent 23 days on the inactive roster. Now that he has recovered, the Cincinnati management can only pray and do what it can to keep its zealous star whole-such as emphatically denying him permission to play in an amateur football league this fall...