Word: lloyd
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...wants to step up its intelligence gathering in advance of presidential trips, to spot potential killers and watch them. A five-man congressional committee, empowered to designate which presidential candidates have qualified for protection, last week ordered the Secret Service to begin guarding on Oct. 1 Henry Jackson, Lloyd Bentsen, Morris Udall and George Wallace...
Renoir's Toni (1934), with Black Stage, a 1919 Harold Lloyd short, Thursday, Oct.2, at 7:30; Reed: Insurgent Mexico, by Paul Leduc, Sunday, Oct. 5, at 7:30. Both one dollar...
Everybody's second choice. That seems to be the presidential strategy of Senator Lloyd M. Bentsen, 54, who has plans of emerging as the compromise nominee after the front runners falter and the Democratic Convention is deadlocked. A multimillionaire Texas businessman who is not given to quixotic pursuits, Bentsen has tried to hug the middle of the road more closely than any other candidate. A wobble either to the left or the right makes him distinctly uneasy. "Others are trying to move toward the middle of the party," he says. "But I don't have to move...
Bentsen likes to say that he speaks without a Texas accent because his forebears came from Denmark by way of South Dakota. But his family fortune definitely speaks the language of Texas. His father, Lloyd Bentsen Sr., and his Uncle Elmer started buying land and reselling it in ways that brought accusations, though little proof, of shady business practices. From real estate, the family moved into farming, cattle raising, oil drilling, banking. Today Bentsen Sr. is worth an estimated $50 million. The candidate puts his own assets at $2.3 million, all of it currently placed in a blind trust...
...speed up his campaign and try to become the front runner. Bentsen seemed to vacillate for a while and then resumed his deliberate pace. Palumbo quit the campaign this month. Says a politician who knows both men: "Ben is a crapshooter, and I get the distinct impression that Lloyd doesn't want to shoot craps." The meticulous multimillionaire is obviously not ready to go for broke...