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When, some time in early 1962, Unruh picks up the speaker's gavel, he will take over a post that by the nature of its duties stands second only to the governorship in importance. And California's Democratic Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") "Brown, a political master of the hesitation waltz, should be no particular obstacle in the path of Unruh's drive for actual party power. Already Unruh is greeted far more warmly in John Kennedy's White House than Brown...
...King's offspring today hold posts ranging from doormen at the palace to the governorship of Sayaboury province; the governor, a bit of an oddball, recently decreed that every elephant in Sayaboury had to wear a license plate.) In total rejection of his father's strenuous love life, the prince married one woman. Princess Khamphouy, a plump cousin, stayed faithful and sired five children. The old King proved totally uninterested in Prince Savang Vatthana's new ideas about agriculture, science and education. "My people only know how to sing and make love," he said...
Though the British will retain ultimate control of Kenya's colony through the governorship, the Africans will get one-third of all Cabinet posts. But there is still Jomo Kenyatta. Mboya and his party swore to take part in no government until Kenyatta ("our first Chief Minister") is released "unconditionally'' from detention in Lodwar in the Northern Frontier Province wasteland 340 miles away...
...political prospects were open to Nixon: 1) to run for California's governorship in 1962 and wait until 1968 to try again for the presidency, or 2) to pass up the four-year term as Governor and challenge Jack Kennedy again...
...ambassador to Rome, Kennedy considered Lawyer Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.-to pay off F.D.R. Jr. for his brass-knuckled campaigning in the West Virginia primary election and to build him up possibly to challenge Nelson Rockefeller for the New York governorship in 1962. While the Rome post might be good for a lot of Italian-American votes, F.D.R. Jr. has almost certainly decided not to take-at least for a while-an Administration job. In that case, the next choice for Rome is Encyclopaedia Britannica Chairman William Benton, the onetime Connecticut Senator and big-time Kennedy campaign contributor...