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Even so, the very profusion of selection methods brings every imaginable type to the conventions. Some are expectable: the two conventions will muster most of the 50 state Governors, and a predictably high proportion of U.S. Senators and Congressmen. Equally expectable types include the pretty, enthusiastic Republican matron from Virginia who has given four to eight hours a day, five days a week, to her local party headquarters to earn her vote in Miami; or the Negro athlete whose name adds luster and racial balance to the California Democratic delegation...
...separate branches, and Parliament, one-fifth of whose members would be appointed by the ruling government, would have almost no power over the Premier. Greece's fractious voters would be reduced to casting their ballots for or against the government in power, with no guarantee that they could muster enough strength to overcome the ruling regime's 20% edge...
Rabbit Stew. Seeking all the support he can muster, De Gaulle freed eleven imprisoned members of the old "French Algeria" Secret Army Organization (O.A.S.), including its old chief, General Raoul Salan, who was serving a life term. Taking advantage of De Gaulle's mood, one of his bitterest enemies returned to France. He was Georges Bidault, 68, a Fourth Republic Premier who fled the country in 1962 after being implicated in an O.A.S. plot to overthrow De Gaulle. Bidault, an extreme rightist, seemed unlikely to play a major role in the elections, but he indicated his willingness to stand...
House Republicans wanted a slice of $6 billion, but appeared ready to compromise at $5 billion. With that amount, Mills was sure that he could muster 90 to 100 Republican votes for the tax rise, more than enough to offset the defection of liberal Democrats, who agreed with the President that the budget needed more, not less money...
Again today, Keefe will have to muster all his forces if he plans to make the Tiger squad the last of his victims...