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...success in meeting low-cost foreign competition with quality amateur movie equipment-while paying factory help scale or better-was a milestone in U.S. business. His performance prior to and during this year's convention may well have seemed vacillating, but he has to win the Illinois governorship against big odds. His crushing of the West Side bloc took guts and know-how in very tough company...
Henry Cabot Lodge, still busy explaining U.S. policies in Viet Nam to allies in Europe and Canada, plans to campaign for his brother John, who is trying to unseat Connecticut's Democratic Senator Tom Dodd, and for John Volpe, who is trying to win back the Massachusetts governorship he lost in 1962. But Lodge says he will not speak for Goldwater; for that matter, no one has asked...
...Awful." A few days before last week's convention, Muñoz called in Sánchez Vilella, told him that he would be nominated for the governorship. Muñoz would still keep a hand in things from his senate seat. But Sánchez Vilella would be in command. "My presence in the senate will be as unobtrusive as possible," said...
...biased against the G.O.P. - a kind of inversion of the old "one-party press" complaint that Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman used to make against Republican publishers. It is a feeling that surfaced during Richard Nixon's presidential campaign and exploded after his run for the California governorship. It was dramatically reflected in the uproar in the San Francisco Cow Palace last month when Dwight Eisenhower jabbed at "sensation-seeking columnists and commentators...
...life on the public payroll and in the "organization," to reach what some consider the third most important elective office in the United States, following the President and the Mayor of New York. After helping Jake Arvey, boss of Cook Country's Democratic organization, boost Adlai Stevenson for the governorship in 1948, Daley became county clerk which, in effect, put him in control of patronage and voting machinery, From this position, he could and did build a machine. By 1955 he was strong enough to buck Arvey and become chairman of the country organization. He achieved a rare position...