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...than 48 hours ago, John R. Williams '63 predicted, "I should win the hung Republican Club election by 50 votes." Last night he gloomily watched his own political hopes dashed by Peter J. Wallison '63 by a 150 to 100 margin, and saw 12 of 13 "machine" candidates win HYRC executive board posts...
Both Wallison and Williams stressed that their platforms for strengthening the club represent the major issue in the campaign. In letters sent to HYRC members February 5, they advocated roughly the same measures: strengthening of the policy committee; active participation in the coming Congressional and Senatorial campaigns in Masachusetts this year; more social functions; and the publication of better newsletters...
Their major differences lie not so much in their proposals for the future, but in their views of the past. Williams deplored HYRC's "fantastic inactivity" and said, "Peter and his friends have controlled the executive board all year and could have already put this stuff into effect...
...impressive line-up of speakers brought to Harvard by HYRC...
...Wallison's supporters see this considerable gap between is trying to make HYRC into a conservatives' organization, while Wallison realizes the club "should encompass all brands of Republicanism." Williams, furthermore, is generally regarded to be more extreme conservative than Wallison. At a Young Americans for Freedom meeting December 5 (both candidates are members of YAF), Williams cast the only negative vote on a resolution to express YAF's interest in securing civil rights legislation...