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...convention time. The dynamics-or lack of them-of the Republican Party so far this year have favored the man who is out collecting delegates, not the man who is winning the polls and primaries. One reason is that many Republicans feel that nobody, not even a vote getter like Lodge, can beat Democrat Johnson in November...
...going strong, but Alan Cranston may prove a tough man to beat. Cranston has Governor Pat Brown, the 70,000-member California Democratic Council and organized labor behind him. He is expected to pick up more votes among Engle supporters than is Salinger. And he is a strong vote getter who won his job in 1962 by a 1,300,000-vote majority...
Connecticut's Senator Abraham Ribicoff. Arguments for: a moderate, a Jew, a proven vote getter in bellwether Connecticut. Arguments against: religion, a lackluster record as Kennedy's first Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare...
Britain's Science Minister, the former Lord Hailsham, who renounced his viscountcy in order to run for Parliament, last week also lost his unofficial title as the Tories' champion vote getter. As plain Quintin Hogg, he won a seat in the Commons from London's solidly Conservative St. Marylebone (pronounced Marrerbun), a well-to-do residential district that encompasses Lord's-the Yankee Stadium of cricket-as well as medicine's Harley Street, Elizabeth Barrett's Wimpole Street and Sherlock Holmes's Baker Street. However, Hogg carried the constituency with only...
...some 30 of the city's 190 schools have 85% or more Negroes-and are therefore described by civil rights organizations as being de facto segregated-Mrs. Louise Day Hicks was re-elected chairman of the Boston School Committee, and emerged as the city's champion vote getter. Mrs. Hicks, a lawyer, had attracted a good deal of attention by insisting that in Boston "there is no de facto segregation." She piled up 20,000 more votes than able Mayor John Collins, 44, who won re-election by pointing to his record of massive urban renewal...