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...Edgerton, he admitted the fact of the telephone call. The president of the California Federal Savings and Loan Association, and a fund raiser in past campaigns for both Nixon and Knight, he said: "The conversation was completely without Dick Nixon's knowledge and certainly without any authority." It was simply his "personal effort" to avoid a party-splitting primary fight...
Stack will probably try to double in the 330 and 440, and the quarter-mile race between the gritty Yale captain and Metcalfe should be a hell-raiser. Bobby Mack of Yale, the fastest two-miler in astern history at 8:53.6, should win his event, but Tim Briault of Cambridge and John Boulter of Oxford will threaten...
...congressional practice is to send constituents flags that have actually flown over the U.S. Capitol. With the flags provided at cost (ranging from $2.91 to $6.25), the service has become so popular that last year a fulltime flag raiser, employed by the Capitol architect's office at an annual salary of $4,400 did his duty 16,013 times, or an average of 61 times a day. Last week Capitol Architect J. George Stewart asked Congress to authorize one more flag raiser at the same salary...
...sophisticated intellectual with an instinctive flair for politics. "All in all," says a friend, "a cool sort of fellow." At the head of the F.L.N. team will probably be stubborn, soft-spoken Ahmed Francis, 49, who has spent the past four years as the F.L.N.'s chief fund raiser and accountant. A World War II French army medical officer and former Deputy in the French Assembly, Francis is a close personal friend of rebel "Premier" Ferhat Abbas, and a member of the F.L.N.'s moderate faction...
...that was just the curtain raiser...