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...compromise, but the McCormack-endorsed candidate for state Democratic chairman, William Burke, refused to withdraw his candidacy; McCormack stuck by him, insisting that "my word is my bond." Another altercation threatens in this year's Massachusetts senatorial election: State Attorney General Eddie McCormack, the Speaker's 'nephew, is already a candidate; Ted Kennedy, the President's brother, would like to be. In this case, the probability is that the Kennedys and the McCormacks will reach an amiable accommodation, with either Ted or Eddie bowing out before the primary...
...world. Last week New York State's Mormons announced that they would build a new headquarters: a 30-to 40-story sky scraper on 58th Street in Manhattan. It will have a chapel, an information center, an auditorium, and office space to lease to businesses. * A nephew of American Motors President George Romney, who also has a son, Scott, 20, serving in Britain...
...Great Man, Nephew Churchill reports, cries in movies. He joins in the family tradition of greeting relatives by mewing like a cat or barking like a dog. Once during World War I, Nephew Churchill leaned out of an upstairs window and, drop by drop, poured the contents of a chamber pot down upon the heads of his uncle, then Minister of Munitions, and Prime Minister Lloyd George. But Churchill's accounts are more anecdote than insight: he never really tries to explain what makes the old man tick. And sooner or later, since he is writing an autobiography, Churchill...
Total Record. The novel deals with a Paris high school teacher, Pierre Vernier, who keeps a minute-by-minute log of all that happens in his eleventh-grade geography class in which his nephew Pierre Eller is a student. Vernier is obsessed by the need to record the total experience: This drives him to include, first, accounts of other students and teachers, then of their families and friends, then of their past and future lives. Next, the compulsive Vernier must procure the manuals and textbooks for all the courses these students are taking, to bone up on them...
...order to explore his subjects' secret thoughts, dreams, and whispered classroom exchanges, Vernier extracts information from his colleagues and enrolls his nephew Pierre as a spy. In the first part of Degrees, Vernier writes from his own point of view: he is "I" and Pierre is "you." In the second part, it gradually emerges that things have been reversed: Vernier is "you" and Pierre is "I." But it is not Pierre writing-it is Vernier writing for and as Pierre...