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...aggressive campaigner who has repeatedly beaten the G.O.P. in a traditionally Republican district, and would likely give Rockefeller the toughest race. But since Stratton lost a bitter fight for the Democratic senatorial nomination in 1964 to Robert Ken nedy, whose subsequent election made him the party's top panjandrum in the state, Stratton's hopes of organization endorsement are slim. According to some readings, in fact, Kennedy would rather see Rockefeller win again in 1966 than have a strong Democratic Governor to challenge his control of New York's delegations to the 1968 and 1972 Democratic conventions...
Inferior Lizard. As the Klan's high mugwumps fidgeted through four days of congressional catechism in the old House Caucus Room last week, they resorted to the same Pavlovian routine of pious nonresponse as their avowed archfoes the Communists. The Klan's chief panjandrum, Imperial Wizard Robert Shelton, 36, probably challenged the Communist record before the same committee by taking the First, Fourth, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments a total of 158 times in two days, invoking the mumbled formula: "I respectably decline to answer that question...
...East African coast 80 years before the Portuguese got there in 1498. Both front page stories, purporting to prove that China and Africa had a long history of "friendly intercourse," celebrated the departure for post-colonial Africa of Communist China's Premier Chou Enlai, who is the grandest panjandrum from Peking ever to visit that continent...
...Henderson, 86, University of North Carolina mathematician, official biographer of George Bernard Shaw, who was a crony of Mark Twain's and studied relativity with Einstein before asking in 1904 to become Shaw's biographer, so impressed The Beard with his erudition (G.B.S. called him "the Grand Panjandrum") that he produced not one but three full-scale lives of the Methuselan playwright; of a heart ailment; in Chapel Hill...
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART-11 West 53rd St. Forty canvases, dating from 1940 to 1963, by Hans Hofmann, the panjandrum of abstract expressionists. Through Dec. 1. Also at the Modern Museum: Soft-focus sculpture of the rebel Italian, Medardo Rosso, who worked in wax and accused Rodin of snitching his ideas. Through...