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...Republican vice-presidential nomination in 1964, but he disclaims any serious interest in it. "I don't want to run for Vice President," he says. "I don't want to be Vice President." He is also uninterested, as of now at least, in taking control of the leaderless, disunited California Republican Party. Says Kuchel: "I'm not cut out for smoke-filled rooms...
Some Tories promptly urged Macmillan to call a snap general election while Labor is virtually leaderless. But Macmillan will almost certainly resist the pressure, select his own time between now and October 1964, the date by which a general election must be held. If, during the "crunch" of the next few weeks in Brussels, Britain is admitted to the Common Market on an approximation of its own terms, and if the straitened economy revives as a consequence, the government would be in an excellent position for a general election in the fall. Macmillan, who will be 69 next month, said...
...criticism that the Common- has been leaderless since his election Volpe can point out the Code of he established. To the suggestion, he is a figurehead, he can counter his resolution of the two abortive strikes; and to the hint that he is -noting," he can note the increased-efficiency of the Industrial Accident...
...charges that Volpe has and equivocated" on the tax "retreated and retreated until on cities and towns have Volpe's "vacillation" on taxes body's prime illustration of that under Volpe "Massachusetts has been leaderless...
...Musici goes conductorless by choice, does not even admit the existence of a first violinist because it wishes to reproduce as precisely as possible the organization of early Italian orchestras. The musicians interrupt their rehearsals when any one of them feels that another has made a mistake. Because the leaderless method could cause endless bickering, I Musici picks its players for personality as well as technique, spends weeks studying the best soloists in Italy before naming a replacement...