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...Democrats win both Houses of the Massachusetts legislature this fall, I would fear gerymandering on a large scale," Christian A. Herter, Jr. '41, candidate for state Attorney General, told the Law School Republican Club yesterday at a luncheon in Harkness Commons. "If this happens," he said, "you can say good-bye to the Republican Party in Massachusetts...
...gubernatorial race against Democratic Incumbent Foster Furculo, 46, who will be another hard man to beat, the G.O.P. skipped over Christian Herter Jr. -son of the U.S. Under Secretary of State and onetime Massachusetts Governor-who was willing to tackle the job (TIME, Jan. 20), instead picked a longtime officeholder, State Attorney General George Fingold, 49. of Concord. Mass. Herter's consolation prize: candidacy for Attorney General Fingold's job. Republican consensus: 1) primary troubles in the gubernatorial runoff between Fingold and Charlie Gibbons. 2) lamb stew for Vincent J. Celeste in the senatorial elections. Reason: Massachusetts...
...find out from the Venezuelan embassy if its government was able to protect the Nixons. He added: "We had better find out what we have militarily in the area." The President called Defense Secretary Neil McElroy and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Nathan Twining. Under Secretary of State Christian Herter, who had, through aides, been in touch with the Nixon party in Venezuela, called McElroy, reported the situation as "nip and tuck...
...When Herter's report came, McElroy was in conference with the Joint Chiefs. The Army's Maxwell Taylor arose, asked McElroy crisply: "May I use your phone?" Permission granted, Taylor snapped out orders for the joist Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Ky. to alert two companies. Equipment: "Packet A" -i.e., antiriot weapons, such as billy clubs and tear...
...Heard of Vice President Richard Nixon's stoning by agitators in Peru (see THE HEMISPHERE), commented admiringly: "Dick's got a lot of guts." Later, Ike dictated a warm personal message, which Acting Secretary of State Christian A. Herter relayed by radiophone as Nixon's party flew from Peru to Ecuador...