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...Ruffles and Flourishes when Nixon arrived at the AFL-CIO convention. But a rapprochement began when Meany turned benevolently neutral in last year's election. Last week, if music had been called for when Nixon addressed a closed-door session of the AFL-CIO executive council in Bal Harbour, Fla., it would have had to be Let Me Call You Sweetheart. Meany and Nixon paraded arm in arm out of the meeting and past applauding union officials. Said Meany of Nixon's talk: "I thought he done very well...
...though he did not run for any office, George Wallace suffered a setback at the polls and in his own home county. In the race for Alabama's Second District seat, he put much of his prestige behind a little-known Democrat named Ben Reeves, the district attorney of Harbour County. His motive was not just neighborliness: Reeves, 36, argues his cases before George's brother, Judge Jack Wallace, and is married to Wallace's cousin. But Wallace's efforts could not overcome the advantages of incumbency, and Republican Congressman William Dickinson, 47, kept his seat...
...thus will be ensconced with his entourage in 235 rooms at the Doral. With success has come additional need: he holds 299 rooms at eight other hotels as well. Hubert Humphrey (450 rooms) will be at the Carillon, Edmund Muskie (470 rooms) at the towering Americana in Bal Harbour. George Wallace will be off at the Sheraton Four Ambassadors and Dupont Plaza in Miami; he has 150 units, one equipped with a tilt table for his physical therapy. Shirley Chisholm (50 rooms) and Wilbur Mills (200 rooms) are both at the Deauville...
...there was bad taste at the Bal Harbour meeting of American labor [Nov. 29], it was not from the forthright Mr. Meany, but from the President, who demagogically sought to pit hardhat against intellectual. PHIL CLARK Chicago...
...their differences with George Meany and close ranks behind him. There are already signs of just that. Says David Crippen, a member of the Social Services Employees of Los Angeles: "For what must be the first time in its history, this local is supporting Meany." The Battle of Bal Harbour was an opening skirmish in what promises to be a long, bitter political campaign...