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Others receiving the awards at the university's 375th commencement included Elizabeth Drew, journalist; William G. Milliken, governor of Michigan; Jesse W. Beams, professor of Physics emeritus at the University of Virginia; William R. Hewlett, president of the Hewlett-Packard Corporation; and Franklin S. Cooper, associate director of research at Haskins Laboratories...
...which included members of the city's bureau of forestry, bureau of electricity, bureau of sanitation and bureau of equipment service-stepped His Honor himself. Sporting an emerald hat and a shillelagh, Mayor Richard Joseph Daley marched jowl by jowl with the machine's new hero, Michael Hewlett. The reason for this celebration was that Hewlett had just preserved the machine's supremacy by knocking off its bitterest enemy, the incumbent Illinois Governor, Daniel Walker...
...state Democratic primary had been rough and shrill. Hewlett, the Illinois secretary of state, called Walker "a bum" and an "irresponsible son of a bitch." Walker countered with angry charges of "bossism," saying that the issues all boiled down to whether or not the Daley machine "puppets" would control state government. In fact, Hewlett's victory-by 54% to 46%-reasserted Daley's power over the whole state and enabled the mayor to humble Walker, who had been feuding with the machine ever since he upset Daley's candidate for the governorship...
From city hall, the word went out to many of the machine's 25,000 patronage workers: turn out the votes for Hewlett or lose your city job. The ward committeemen got the message, and so did the precinct captains, who perform every service from bailing kids out of jail to helping faithful Daley followers find city jobs to assuring that garbage pickups and street repairs are made. On election day, the precinct captains strove mightily to meet the voter turnout quotas expected of them. The captains pointedly greeted voters by their names, while lesser machine workers carefully checked...
Walker's defeat leaves Hewlett to face the Republican primary winner, James "Big Jim" Thompson, 39, the former federal prosecutor, who has sent many officeholders-Democrats and Republicans alike-to jail for corruption. On primary night, Thompson staked out his theme for the November elections: "I'm going to talk a lot about one-man rule-and I don't mean Mr. Hewlett." In short, Thompson's main target will be Daley. Thompson is popular, but anybody who tries to topple Daley's men faces quite a job. Just ask Dan Walker, the only incumbent...