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Died. Edward Joseph ("Knocko") McCormack, 67, Massachusetts politician, brother of U.S. House Speaker John McCormack, the burly (275 lbs.) younger son of Irish immigrants who for two decades dispensed political favors and jobs from his South Boston saloon, stage-managed family campaigns but failed last year to help his son Edward Jr. win the Democratic Senatorial nomination from Teddy; of cancer; in Boston...
...engagements prior to scheduled departure for Japan, at his London home; Indonesia's President Achmed Sukarno, 62, "maintaining routine vigilance'' after treatment of kidney ailment by specialists from Peking, in Djakarta; Burt Lancaster, 49, 1963 Oscar nominee, with infectious hepatitis, at home in Hollywood; Edward J. ("Knocko") McCormack, 69, freewheeling Boston Democratic leader and brother of House Speaker John W. McCormack, recuperating from cancer surgery, at Veterans' Hospital, Jamaica Plain, Mass...
...booth, had to call on the President for some husbandly assistance with the voting machine.) That night, the end came with merciful speed at 8:32, when an aide handed a slip of paper to Teddy Kennedy's brother-in-law, Steve Smith. "Here's where Knocko lives." he said. It was South Boston's Ward 7. Precinct 5. Knocko had been Democratic leader there for 30 years. The count was Kennedy 396, McCormack...
Commander. And he hangs his head, and he says, 'I can't be with you. Knocko.' 'What do you mean?' says I. 'I've been offered a good federal job if I go with Kennedy,' says...
...another guy. He's like a first cousin to me for 40 years. How would you like to be shaked like that when he comes and says he's not with you? How do you like that? He says they promised him the postmastership in Worcester." Concluded Knocko: "It's pressure, pressure, pressure, post office, post office, post office...