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...since then has taken over the party organization. Even prominent Kennedy-backers like Pat Lucey are now part of the McCarthy-led liberal coalition (with significant black support in Milwaukee). The grassroots organization which brought thousands of new people into the state politics is now fighting for Sen. Gaylord Nelson's re-election...
Weinstock was a more than welcome suitor. Although English Electric has long been considered ripe for a merger, its chairman, Lord Nelson of Stafford, wanted no part of the $624 million takeover bid by Plessey Co. He argued that merging with Plessey would bring few improvements in efficiency because the two firms concentrated on different lines -Plessey on telecommunications and aerospace products, English Electric on appliances and heavy industrial equipment. British G.E., on the other hand, seemed like a compatible partner, especially since it had already been cooperating with English Electric in the manufacture of stoves at home...
...emptiness of Miami Beach and disgusted by the disorder and violence of Chicago," he noted. "Both of these conventions told just about all there is to tell about what's wrong with the convention system itself." If the public dismay is reflected in Congress, a proposal like Nelson's might well have a fighting chance for passage...
...folks. Then came the musicians with the weird-sounding names and getups - Country Joe and the Fish, the Cleanliness and Godliness Skiffle Band, Frumious Bandersnatch, Mother Tucker's Yellow Duck, Dr. Humbead's New Tranquility String Band. They all headed for the farm owned by Divorcee Betty Nelson, a late-blooming flower child of 39 and, starting right then and there, Sultan's first rock impresario...
...aftermath of the festival, Betty Nelson even became a heroine of sorts in Sultan. The hippies dubbed her Universal Mother, or U.M. for short, and the townspeople seemed ready to accept that title. As for the Universal Mother herself, she returned cheerfully to her wild raspberries, five children, two horses, two pigs, 75 chickens and an assortment of cats and dogs...