Word: len
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...Enemies. Hearty, hefty (6 ft. 2 in., 230 lbs.) Len Hall, 59, was a natural choice to run Nixon's campaign. As the 1956 campaign manager for Ike and past chairman of the Republican National Committee (1953-57), he knows more Republican politicians, and is more familiar with the intricacies of the party's machinery than any other man. The fact that he is no friend of the other G.O.P. candidate on the horizon. New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller (Hall clearly wanted the Republican gubernatorial nomination that went to Rocky last year), has put Hall even...
Since last spring, when Dick Nixon first tapped him for the big job, Len Hall has been carefully sorting out the professionals and organizing a basic training program for the amateurs who will work for Nixon. A longtime advocate of massive amateur movements, he has modeled the Nixon clubs after the highly successful Citizens for Ike organization. He has padded surefootedly on recruiting trips through Florida, North Carolina and Illinois in recent weeks, and his booming voice has reached out over the telephone to Washington, Oregon, Texas, New Hampshire and Iowa, to summon the faithful. In response to an urgent...
...they assured Nixon of their allegiance, echoed Len Hall's own words: "I'll do anything...
...modern art relentlessly stresses the new. The result is mostly confusion, but also a degree of fermentation. Last week in Manhattan's Greenwich Village a lean, wispy-bearded man with the cheerful energy of a grasshopper was preparing something brand new in sculpture. His suitably improbable name: Len Lye. His sculptures he calls "Tangibles," but they are not meant to be touched. They vibrate...
Beating the drums for a full-scale inquiry by his Senate Commerce Committee, scheduled to start in Manhattan next month, Monroney told Chicago Newscaster Len O'Connor: "Five hundred people polled out of 70 million is not a proper sample, and that is a phony way of oversimplifying the choice or prominence of television programs bought by the advertising agencies for various manufacturers. We shouldn't worship these ratings as we do ... Frankly, I don't think we can pass legislation, but I do think the public . . . is entitled to know why they are getting certain programs...