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...MARVIN H. VETTER...
Selective Charisma. The President's campaign organization back in Washington also seemed to be in irons. Aside from Johnson himself, the key operative so far has been White House Appointment Secretary W. Marvin Watson, a dour, former Texas steel executive whom the President lauds as "the most efficient man I've ever known" but who is less than an expert in national politics...
...that anything under 40% of the vote would be a defeat for McCar thy-figuring that he had chosen an unattainable figure. He had not. The following night, an anguished Boutin sat in Johnson's Manchester headquarters, reluctant to put through the telephone call that White House Aide Marvin Watson was waiting for in Washington. The picture would improve, Boutin kept saying, as soon as the results came in from Berlin. McCarthy carried Berlin. By 10:40 p.m., one of the two bars that had been set up hours earlier in the Sheraton-Carpenter motel had to close, since...
...groan rose from the heartbroken Oakland crowd. But it was a groan almost equally mixed with cheers. If their favorites had to go down, how better than at the hands of Bobby Hull? For the sight of Robert Marvin Hull, 29, leaning into a hockey puck is one of the true spectacles of sport-like watching Mickey Mantle clear the roof, or Wilt Chamberlain flick in a basket, or Bart Starr throw that beautiful bomb. It is the thing that hockey fans go to see-whether in Chicago, Montreal or Oakland. And it is the thing that makes Bobby Hull...
...Marvin Lazerson, the Winthrop House tutor who organized the summer program, offered a bleak evaluation of his project's results. "It suffered from all of the flaws of compensatory education," he said in an interview yesterday...