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After work, St. Laurent spends the evening on state papers, listening to the radio, or reading (usually newspapers and magazines). Sometimes he works crossword puzzles. In the absence of Madame St. Laurent, who spends some of her time in Quebec, his apartment is kept by Mrs. Anne Parr-Morley, a middle-aged Englishwoman. "When I ask him what he wants for a meal," she says, "he almost always says 'Oh, just fix me some eggs.' " He also likes macaroni & cheese and chicken. St. Laurent, though no teetotaler, seldom takes a drink at home, even less often entertains anyone outside...
...Minute Less . . ." Arana's closest friends had been the officers of Fort Guardia de Honor, on the southeast edge of the city. When they got the news of the shooting, Colonel Jorge Barrios opened a case of Old Parr Scotch and called his officers into conference. Convinced that Arana had been murdered by pro-Arevalo killers, they determined to take over the government. The question was, who would form the junta...
Like his father before him, George Berham Parr, 47, is the political boss of oil-rich Duval County, in the southernmost appendix of Texas. He is also a banker, beer baron, oil promoter and lawyer. He went to jail for Federal income-tax evasion in 1936. After he got out, one year later, he began again to stretch his grip beyond his small core of about 5,000 Mexican-American voters in Duval to take in the Democratic machines of several neighboring counties...
...TIME, Sept. 13) that it was still touch & go when the Democratic State Executive Committee met last week to certify the winner. The committee went over the officially counted returns from the state's 254 counties. The votes that tipped the balance came from eight counties in which Parr's influence is especially strong. Parr, who had more than once delivered thumping majorities for conservative Coke Stevenson, had turned on him and delivered them to New Dealing Lyndon Johnson. How Parr could deliver was shown in Duval County's return: Johnson 4,622; Stevenson 40. When...
Coke Stevenson cried "fraud," and charged that 202 votes had been added to Johnson's total after the polls were closed in Jim Wells County, which is a Parr stronghold. He had affidavits from citizens of the county, who swore they had not voted although the lists showed they had. But Johnson offered affidavits from the same people, in which they swore that Stevenson's men had intimidated them into making their charges. The committee voted, 29 to 28, to include the protested votes and certify Johnson as the winner. Coke Stevenson stalked out, started legal moves...