Word: mervin
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...Republican) presidential primaries and its 32 electoral votes. To no one is California more crucial than to Native Son Richard Nixon; if he cannot count on his home state, he will have a rough path to walk toward the White House. Just four months ago the Mervin Field poll, most widely circulated in the state, showed Nixon not only running well behind Massachusetts' John Kennedy and Illinois' Adlai Stevenson, but also failing to do better against the two top Democrats than his one dangerous challenger, New York Republican Nelson Rockefeller. But last week, in a dramatic turnabout which...
...MERVIN C. HELFRICH Glen Ridge...
...indicated he will probably accept. One group-the "Seven Wise Men" as they are called at the White House-was formed by the President himself to consider the level and nature of the American defense effort. The other-a special committee on the air-defense problem headed by Mervin Kelly of the Bell Laboratories-was formed by former Secretary of Defense Robert A. Lovett and requested to continue its work by the President. It was the President who insisted that the Lincoln findings remain on the Security Council agenda, so that the problem should not drop out of sight...