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Council the Loser...
...Republican fight had taken time; the censure agitation had consumed two full meetings. While each side could point to victories, the Council was clearly the loser. A day after the Council seemed to have settled its temporary internal disturbances, Dunster's Bill Bailey decided he "could wait no longer" for it to get moving again. In fact, decided Bailey, the present Council could never get moving properly. To "dramatize" his unhappiness with the present system, Bailey asked Dunster men to withdraw their representatives. A whopping 82 per cent of the House backed him up. Although the action was in many...
...Decided to name liberal Democrat Anthony Akers, 46, a three-time loser of fights for the congressional seat in Manhattan's silk-stocking 17th District (incumbent: Republican John Lindsay), as Ambassador to New Zealand...
Horse-race spectators keep their eyes up front, where the money rides. Nobody watches a loser...
Having kept his voice to a whisper throughout the presidential campaign, Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing finally opened up on politics-not to hail victorious Roman Catholic John Kennedy but to give lavish praise to the Quaker loser. Said the Cardinal: "If I were asked to name the good-will man of 1960, I would unhesitatingly give the accolade to Richard Nixon. During the recent campaign he never exploited the religious or any other issue that would tend to divide the American people. When he lost, he was magnificent in defeat...