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Another noise drowned in the landslide's rumble: two-time Democratic Governor Albert Benjamin Chandler, 61, sometime U.S. Senator and unlamented baseball high commissioner (1945-51). Barred by law from succeeding himself as Governor, "Happy" Chandler tried in the May primary to win the nomination for a hand-picked successor. He failed against a Combs campaign expertly engineered by ex-Senator (1950-56) Earle C. Clements, 63, bitter factional foe of Chandler for a quarter-century (TIME, May 25). Only a Republican victory in the election could have restored Democrat Chandler's slipping grip on state political power...
...beat both Republican and Democratic candidates when he first ran for mayor in 1953, kept taxes down, pushed urban redevelopment, increased services. Opponent Ireland, a sometime author who was educated at Princeton, Boston and Harvard universities, was once a municipal judge, wears a derby pulled over his ears and high-laced shoes. He put on an old-style campaign and dramatized his complaints about the city bus system by buying his own bus and picking up passengers, once dug up weeds on a local bridge. His defeat was a sure thing...
...York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller quivered on his launching pad, preparing to take off this week on a breathtaking, "nonpolitical" swoosh through California and three other Western states, will make 35 public appearances in four days. In Albany, meanwhile, Rocky was assembling a high-octane, presidential-type staff of experts. In as his chief military adviser (officially his executive assistant in Albany) was General (ret.) Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Schuyler, most recently Chief of Staff to NATO Chief General Lauris Norstad. For his growing platoon of speechwriters, Rockefeller signed on Hugh Morrow, onetime Washington correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post...
...month after Nelson Rockefeller's friends set up a GHQ in Concord from which to wage his fight for next March's keynote presidential primary (TIME, Oct. 5), the advocates of Vice President Richard Nixon also pitched camp in Concord with a similar organization. Nixon's high-powered strategy board includes Senators Styles Bridges and Norris Cotton, and onetime Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks...
Britain wiped out import quotas on all but a handful of U.S. goods that have been barred or restricted for 20 years. Its gesture is expected to whet demand for American-style cocktail dresses and printed skirts, other readymade clothing of new, washable fabrics that are still high-priced in Britain. Novelties such as blue jeans, California apple juice, well-designed U.S. toys, and costume jewelry should also fare well. But Detroit automakers expect no gain, since steep British import duties and sales taxes, added to transport costs, double U.S. price tags. U.S. cars are considered too big, too flary...