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Lincoln & the Americans. Before taking over the governorship in 1955, Quadros made his first trip outside Latin America, a holiday jaunt to Europe and the U.S. with Eloá and his daughter Tutu. In Europe, he fell in love with London ("a man's town"). The U.S. was not so endearing. At New York's Idlewild Airport he had a raging two-hour argument over a lost vaccination certificate; he detested Manhattan's bitter January cold, despite all that U.S. friends such as Nelson Rockefeller could do to thaw him out. He went to Washington...
...seeks the death penalty, but his wife, a Vassar liberal, played with the animation of a damp Post Toasty by Cereal Heiress Dina Merrill, is dead against capital punishment. Yet the D.A. (Edward Andrews) wants to rev the Thunderbirds right into the chair so that he can get the governorship (Hollywood has decided all voters are out for blood). One of the defendants turns out to be the son of a woman (Shelley Winters) whom Lancaster once loved. Then Lancaster tries to kill one of the punks who pummels him in the I.R.T., and begins to doubt his own motives...
Such tactics swung a dozen Southerners, enough for the Administration to win. Seeing that, Republicans began to buckle. Six New Jersey Republicans decided to vote for the bill, fearing that to do otherwise would cost former Labor Secretary James Mitchell the support of labor in his run for the governorship. Five Massachusetts Republicans also voted "aye," if only to lift Southern wages closer to their own and thus slow the exodus of New England's textile industry to the South...
...Democratic Way. When Pat Brown ran for the governorship in 1958, Unruh was his effective campaign manager in Southern California; later, on the floor of the assembly, he was the man most responsible for the passage of Brown's first successful legislative program. His political manners are from a classic mold. He can be generous, even to Republicans. But when he is crossed, Unruh is merciless. As chairman of the assembly Ways & Means Committee, he once lectured the members: "This committee is run democratically and will continue to be-as long as the majority votes...
Died. Mary Craig Kimbrough Sinclair, 78, a Mississippi beauty who married muckraking Socialist Crusader Upton Sinclair in 1913, devoted the rest of her life to his myriad causes (vegetarianism, Prohibition and three campaigns for the governorship of California), his writing (75 books) and, finally, to keeping him "at home and out of mischief"; of a heart attack; in Pasadena, Calif. Herself the author of sonnets and a sprightly autobiography, Southern Belle, she described "Uppie" as "a dual personality-a helpless child in his personal affairs and a brave and skillful fighter in the cause he loved...