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Chairman Don Ahrens, retired vice president of the traditionally Old Guardian General Motors Corp., agreed to carry Summerfield's suggestion to Michigan State University Professor Paul Bagwell, the Republican candidate for Governor last year and titular party head. But Ford telephoned ahead, told Bagwell to ignore .Summerfield's plan, promised aid if the Old Guard attempted to bar Bagwell from another try at the governorship...
...After a two-day swing through the Middle West, including a three-hour conference with Adlai Stevenson, Pat Brown headed back to California with the an nouncement that he would be "only" a favorite-son candidate. Two days of shoptalk with the Democratic elders had convinced him that he should not be a serious candidate for the presidency. ¶From Washington, word leaked out that Favorite Son Brown might have his sights focused on a lesser prize. In a September conference with Lyndon Johnson, the peripatetic Brown said frankly that Johnson could never win the California primary, though he thought...
...grief on the main street of Vaduz when their car almost collided with a herd of cows. The delegate representing the haL'-square-mile domain of Prince Rainier and Princess Grace was Monaco's commissioner general of tourism, Gabriel Olivier, who arrived with a secretary and a head cold. San Marino, a landlocked mountain peak in northeastern Italy, sent a Belgian lawyer and musicologist who also serves as San Marino's consul general to Belgium and Liechtenstein. "They couldn't spare anyone from San Marino," explained Baron von Fab-Fein, "because of the political problems there...
...Matos' officer friends urged him to go with them to the hills and start a guerrilla campaign. Matos chose to wait. Tension grew; crowds milled about the city of Camagiiey. Captain Jose Manuel Hernandez, disillusioned by Castro and fearful for Matos, put a bullet through his own head. Flying into town, Castro jailed Matos as a "traitor," "ingrate," and an ally of two other prominent Cubans purged because of their anti-Communist pronouncements-ex-President Manuel Urrutia and ex-Air Force Chief Pedro Diaz Lanz. Spat Castro: "The three musketeers have fallen...
...suburban New Rochelle, N.Y., is a scholar specializing in 17th century English. She is also a Roman Catholic teaching sister, member of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur. A vigorous teacher with a sharp eye for the world's ways, Sister Margaret this summer was named head of Washington, D.C.'s Trinity College (enrollment: 646), her own alma mater ('45). Last week, in her new role as one of the nation's youngest college presidents, Sister Margaret, 36, called a press conference and let fly with some cogent thoughts on the education of U.S. women...