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...party's problem much better than he lets on. But the nature of his position does not allow him to speak out. As chairman of the State Committee, he must be prepared to work closely with whatever candidates emerge from the primaries; and as chief party fund-raiser, he can show partiality towards none. Above all, he cannot afford to offend Senator Kennedy, who proved conclusively in his 1962 battle with McCormack that he has the power to make or break almost any state Democrat at will...
...hopefuls-even though he is a staunch conservative in a state where Republicanism has traditionally tended toward the progressive side. Reagan's political reputation dates from the 1964 presidential campaign when-only four years after becoming a Democrat-for-Nixon- he won attention as a speechmaker and fund raiser for Barry Goldwater...
Captain Bob Damus came up with Harvard's lone sabre victory, a 5-4 win against Columbia senior Harry Sticker. Damus also fought a hair-raiser in the opening bout of the match with Frank Lowy, all-Ivy and first in the Eastern last year, but lost...
...from the Negro whose arrest for drunken driving touched off the holocaust to Brown himself. Last week the commission released its findings and no-nonsense recommendations* with a sober warning that unless immediate action is taken, the August riots "may seem by comparison to be only a curtain raiser for what could blow up one day in the future." Highlights: > To erase the appalling gap between the educational levels of whites and Negroes in Los Angeles schools, it-urged a one-third reduction of class size in Negro schools, a permanent preschool teaching program to include all children from...
...Histadrut elections, in fact, may have been responsible for Mapai's eventual triumph. Shocked by their results, Eshkol fired his campaign managers, revved up his multimillion-dollar campaign. Chief strategist and fund raiser: silver-tongued Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir. Publicity director: equally eloquent Deputy Premier Abba Eban, former Ambassador to the United Nations. Eshkol himself campaigned as the candidate of unity and stability, asked only for "four years of quiet to work," and pleasantly referred to Ben-Gurion's shrill taunts as "our little rupture in Mapai." On election day, the Mapai mobilized 60,000 "volunteers...