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Postmaster General Marvin Watson, the unsmiling majordomo of the White House staff, oversaw credentials, schedules and arrangements, but moved through the amphitheatre's corridors all but unheeded. Convention Manager John Criswell was rarely in evidence...
...himself appointed Senator in 1963 but was out of a job upon the Senator's defeat in a 1964 runoff primary. Jim Jones, a fellow Oklahoman working for Johnson, arranged a National Committee post. Jones was rising in status at the White House as an aide to Marvin Watson, now Postmaster General, and with his help Criswell moved up notch by notch in the National Committee. When a new treasurer was needed, Jones immediately recommended Criswell. "Can we trust him?" Johnson asked. "He's my roommate," said Jones. These days, Criswell shares rooms with no man and confidences...
...level of June 30, 1966. The formula is only theoretically simple. The beleaguered postal service protested that it could not reduce its payroll of 710,000 without either 1) having to pay vastly increased overtime, thus virtually canceling its savings, or 2) seriously curtailing deliveries and service. Postmaster General Marvin Watson warned the Senate Post Office and Civil Service Committee that he would be forced to shut down 12,000 smaller post offices and restrict residential delivery to four days a week...
There they asked for an injunction barring any university action against them. Instead, last week they got a dressing down from Judge Marvin Frankel. Like an exasperated teacher correcting careless students back on the campus, the former Columbia law professor dismissed the legal arguments as "a whole series of errors . . . equivocal legalisms . . . sprawling verbosities . . . gross flaws . . . baroque rhetoric...
...with a $700 loan, last year grossed a soulful $30 million. Gordy's slick, carefully controlled "Motown sound" (noted for its rhythmic accent on all four beats of the bar instead of the usual R & B emphasis on alternating beats) has launched, among others, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Stevie Wonder, and Martha and the Vandellas...