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...author, a senior in Lowell House, spent the last nine months working for Senator Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.), first as a campaign aide and later as a personal staff member in Washington...
...long-range political prospect for the recommendations of Nader's group is uncertain. Several Senators--Ribicoff, Magnuson, Nelson, Pastori, and Kennedy--can be expected to be sympathetic to an F.T.C. reform effort; the Kennedy staff has "requested" a copy of the Nader report and the January 25 copy of Business Week reports that three Congressional investigations into the F.T.C. are slated for the spring. More public sentiment for reform may be generated upon commercial publication of the Nader report--leading perhaps to preliminary injunctive power for the Commission if not a change in personnel...
...demanding, detailed coverage of the campaign by working around the clock. On the longest night of their year, they were assisted by colleagues from other sections, including Senior Editors Jesse Birnbaum, Champ Clark, Marshall Loeb and Peter Martin, and Associate Editors Leon Jaroff, Robert Jones and Ed Magnuson...
Humphrey just edged out Nixon in Washington, avoiding a Nixon sweep in the West. At the same time Governor Dan Evans, Republican Keynote speaker, and Warren Magnuson, senior Democratic Senator were both re-elected by lopsided margins...
Everett-on-the-Spot. Most significant was the soul-searching among Senators, many of them Western liberals who have long bowed to N.R.A.-generated pressure and opposed effective controls. Washington Democrat Warren Magnuson, who as chairman of the Commerce Committee helped bottle up the Dodd bill after J.F.K.'s assassination, said he would now vote for a ban on the mail-order sale of all guns because of "the violence and terror surging through the streets of every county and every state." Democrats William Proxmire and Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, Edmund Muskie of Maine, Mike Monroney of Oklahoma and Republican...