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...backlash issue, its impact is baffiingly uneven and unpredictable. In Illinois, Democratic Senator Paul Douglas is losing votes to G.O.P. Challenger Charles Percy not only among Chicago whites but also among hitherto loyal Negroes, who resent Democratic Mayor Richard Daley's resistance to their demands. In Ohio, Republican Congressman William M. McCulloch, a key man in getting the 1964 Civil Rights Act through the House, is now under sharp attack by a Democratic opponent who accuses him of "appeasing the violence of the rioters." And in Massachusetts' U.S. Senate race, backlash voters face a bewildering choice between G.O.P...
...talked the management of one plant into lighting up early so that he could see the smokestack flame in the right light. He found the pointing pose highly appropriate for Premier Bennett, as he considered his subject "a gesticulating man." Studying the painting in the light of the hitherto untold story of bustling growth and wealth in Western Canada, one office caption writer suggested that the title might have been "This way to the bank...
...President was not amused. It was historically unprecedented for a junior Senator, not yet 41 years old, to outpoll a hitherto-popular President from the same party. And it could prove damaging to the party, on the eve of a midterm election that could erode the Administration's working majority in Congress. Moreover, Bobby is likely to remain in the headlines by campaigning in perhaps a score of states (Humphrey plans to stump 38, Johnson all 50) for such fellow Democrats as Michigan's G. Mennen Williams and Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas. A major target...
...honeymoon destination was about the last secret that the White House had managed to preserve since the engagement was announced Christmas Eve. Right up to the wedding day, bits of hitherto classified information continued to dribble out. Pat disclosed to an interviewer that he was a Democrat after all, despite those rumors that he shared his parents' Republican loyalties. The President himself cleared up the question of how the young Nugents would support themselves while attending the University of Texas. Luci, he said, has an income of her own of undisclosed size and source, and Pat's parents...
...best man in absentia; his father, Gerard Sr., will stand proxy for him. And so, after a ceremony of 60 minutes, Miss Luci Baines Johnson of the White House and Johnson City, Texas, will become the lawful wedded wife of Mr. Patrick John Nugent of Waukegan, Ill., a town hitherto famed mostly for the fact that it was the birthplace of Jack Benny...