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...Your article about TV critic Jack O'Brian [Nov. 20] was a perfect description of him. It reminded me of the time in 1956 when 1 worked at a gambling casino, in Nassau, Bahamas, where he was a guest. He was so uncouth and ill-mannered I had all I could do to restrain myself from doing him bodily injury...
...while it appeared that Holley, 39, a former minority leader in the Florida house of representatives, might give Burns a real run for his money. Holley gave reporters "photocopies" of bank ledgers purporting to show that Burns had a secret Nassau bank account of $1,215,690. To refute the charge, Burns flew with reporters to the island, marched them into the Bank of Nova Scotia branch on Bay Street, and proved to everyone's satisfaction that Holley's documents were phony. From then on, Burns's election was a cinch...
Certainly he and Smith possess organizational talent; and both have learned something about New York's own style of polyglot politics in the campaign. They would have allies too in a bid for control. Nassau county's leader John English and the ailing Bronx boss Charles Buckley will surely offer their support...
English, who often visited Robert Kennedy in Washington and had pushed hardest for his Senatorial nomination, has already proposed a method for Kennedy to take over. In 1966 the Democrats will need a gubernatorial candidate, and English has one--Nassau's able, attractive County Executive Eugene Nickerson. If Nickerson became Kennedy's man and won both nomination and election, Kennedy would demonstrate that he, and not Mayor Wagner, controlled political power. At the same time his man, Nickerson, would gain the vital patronage a governor possesses...
Foreign Affairs. In foreign and defense matters, Wilson creates some uneasiness in Washington. He wants to abandon Britain's independent nuclear deterrent, wants to renegotiate the Nassau agreement, which originally promised Britain Polaris missiles. This switch might not trouble Washington. But Wilson is also known to be cool, if not downright hostile, to joining M.L.F., the multilateral nuclear force that the U.S. is pushing hard, and he is sometimes regarded as a little too eager for a détente with Communism and for various disarmament schemes. But despite the lingering left wing, Harold Wilson's Labor Party...