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...Good's motion was defeated by a 4-3 vote and he lost more than just the appointment. Now, even if he is elected, he will be at odds with Duehay, the CCA's strongest vote-getter and Fitzgerald, the most powerful Independent...
White, the Commonwealth's tireless and intelligent Secretary of State, is an impressive vote-getter, undefeated in four statewide elections...
...York's Jacob Javits, an able Senator and prodigious vote getter, would have been glad to be the nation's first Jewish Vice President. But a highly conservative Republican presidential candidate probably wouldn't want him, a red-hot liberal wouldn't need him, and a fellow New Yorker like Nelson Rockefeller couldn't run on the same ticket with him. So Governor George Romney's impressive third-term victory in Michigan seemed like very good news last fall. Why not a union of Republican moderates around a Michigan-New York axis? The crux...
...then, however, the Franco-British SST Concorde should be setting commercial aviation records. A full-scale mock-up of the droop-snoot plane was a big attention-getter at the air show. Larger than the Russian TU-144 SST and carrying about half as many passengers as the American version, the Concorde is scheduled to make its first flight on Feb. 28, 1968. The estimated price of the plane has already jumped from $7,000,000 to $21 million. Even so, the partners hope that when the 1,450-m.p.h. Concorde goes into commercial use in 1971, it will snare...
...wooded land, while the suburban visitor first spots the houses clustered together near the lake, looking like an old world village. But such simplicity was not simple for Simon; it required converting Fairfax Country's zoning laws and convincing the Country that a preplanned city served its goals getter than piecemeal land-use planning. In fact, this little city in the country materialized only because Simon managed to revolutionize the country's thinking on its entire growth for the next 50 years...