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...NANCY MCMAHON Purchase...
While Joe Tibbetts was racking up a substantial 3 and 2 margin over Mike McMahon of M.I.T., Tommy Wynne, the last of the Crimson winners, finally broke out of the slump he has been in since the Southern tour with a 4 and 3 trouncing of Tom Thomas...
After Holt's death, the Liberal leadership-and prime ministership-seemed far more likely to go to Deputy Party Leader William McMahon, Holt's treasurer and second-in-command. But Interim Prime Minister John McEwen, leader of the Country Party and a longtime personal rival of McMahon, warned that he would bolt the coalition if the Liberals chose McMahon. Amid the resulting party turmoil, Gorton went quickly to work gathering support for his own drive, and gained a full week on everyone else. By the time last week's Liberal Party convention opened in Canberra...
...coalition. On one side is Country Party Leader John McEwen, Holt's Minister of Trade and Deputy Prime Minister, who automatically succeeded to the prime ministership until new Liberal Party elections can be held Jan. 9. On the other side is the Liberal Party's William McMahon, Holt's Treasurer, the party's second-in-command and Holt's heir apparent. Over the years, small policy disagreements between the two have sharpened into such an angry personal feud that McEwen last week threat ened to pull his party out of the coalition if the Liberals...
...Moving. Since anyone but McMahon might be able to hold together a coalition, several party members began quietly lobbying for the top Liberal job. Among the chief candidates: Immigration Minister Billy M. Sneddin, 42, Deputy Defense Minister Allen Fair-hall, 58, External Affairs Minister Paul Hasluck, 62, Labor and National Service Minister Leslie H. Bury, 54, and Education Minister John G. Gorton, 56. In the end, it was a tribute to Australia-and to Holt-that overall government policy itself will probably shift little, either under McEwen or his Lib eral successor. Above all, McEwen promised last week that...