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...longer at ease with each other. Party organizations find it difficult to organize. Old loyalties fail to bind. Such volatility breeds accidental candidates, and Procaccino is a creature of circumstance. Lindsay's failures and the ugly mood of the city, far more than anything in Procaccino's past record or present offerings, account for the Democrat's promising prospects...
...York City, capital of New Politics and glamour, headquarters of the national communications media, lair of sophisticates. Yet, here is Procaccino, 57 and looking it, poor on television and ducking it when possible, suspicious of the press and at odds with it?here is the scion and heir of Old Politics, doing rather nicely by the estimates of adversary and ally alike...
...G.O.P. Conference Room to elect Dirksen's successor as minority leader. They chose Pennsylvania's Senator Hugh Scott, 68, a moderate liberal of the Eastern Establishment. Then, three hours later, the same band of G.O.P. Senators who accomplished that feat combined to give Scott's old job as assistant minority leader to Michigan's Robert Griffin, 45, a moderate only slightly to the right of Scott...
Both are skilled political operators -which partly accounts for their success last week. Most of the Senate's conservative G.O.P. was aligned behind Dirksen's son-in-law, Howard Baker of Tennessee. Working against the 43-year-old Baker, however-even among such conservatives as Idaho's Leonard Jordan, Utah's Wallace Bennett and North Dakota's Milton Young-was the senatorial tradition of seniority...
When police first recovered the body of 18-year-old Ella Jean Scott from a grave on a Chesterton, Ind. farm last February, their chief problem lay in deciding which of two conflicting stories to believe. According to slim, handsome Joel Saikin, 25, his father Samuel, 49, had murdered the go-go dancer in his Chicago warehouse and enlisted his son's help in disposing of her body. According to the elder Saikin, Joel was the girl's killer. Joel passed a lie-detector test, and the authorities put papa on trial for murder. But after hearing...