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...Lone Star State's 26 electoral votes with 75 per cent of the popular vote. Barefoot Sanders lost his attempt to unseat Republican Senator John Lower who won with 58 per cent of the vote. In the race for the gubernatorial mansion. Dolph Briscoe and the GOP's Henry Grover were locked in a tight race that was too close to call at press time...
...debut, three hungry, enormously attractive actors-Hume Cronyn, Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson-taking stylish licks at a play that has far more seasoning than substance. It is a generational saga of American life from the late 19th century to the present, a la Our Town, from Grover Cleveland and his mistress to Masters and Johnson. With obvious delight and gusto, the key actors play many men and women at various ages, and they are awfully good at it. The play concerns a clan that manufactures buttons, but Playwright Robison seems to have lost a few of his. -T.E.K...
...Menlo Park, Calif. After beginning his career as an editorial writer for the New York Evening Post, Nevins gained an early reputation through a number of historical books and in 1931 became De Witt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia. Nevins' first Pulitzer came in 1933 for Grover Cleveland: A Study in Courage, his second in 1937 for Hamilton Fish: The Inner History of the Grant Administration. The last of his eight-volume history of the U.S. from 1847 through the Civil War will be published this year. Perhaps Nevins' most highly regarded contribution was to organize...
...acted in the interests of oil before. As long ago as 1893, Grover Cleveland intervened in Brazil at the insistence of Standard Oil. In Iran, in 1953 (when "guess-who" was Vice President), the CIA engineered a coup against the popularly-supported government of Mossadegh, after that nationalist leader began nationalizing Anglo-Iranian Oil, the largest Western firm in that country. The CIA restored the present Shah to the throne, and a year later an Oil Consortium was created through negotiations between the Shah and American companies (the British and Dutch were effectively excluded from those negotiations). The result...
...Grover P. Walker, co-chairman of Afro, said that the faculty vote on exams "has not affected the reasons why we struck or our grievances. We still intend to resolve these grievances and change the administrative mechanisms that make these grievances possible...