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Then West Virginia Democrat Jennings Randolph, an oldtime New Deal liberal who rarely bucks a Democratic President, cast a resonant and decisive "aye." With that the Administration knew it had almost certainly lost, and Arizona Democrat Carl Hayden, who had reluctantly promised to support the Administration only if his vote was needed to produce a saving tie, also voted against medicare. The final vote was 52 to 48-with 21 Democrats joining 31 Republicans (all except Case, Cooper, Javits, Keating and Kuchel) to defy the President...
...made defeat possible-actually a third of the Senate's Democrats. They included such prominent Democrats as Foreign Relations Chairman William Fulbright, Ace Investigator John McClellan, moderate Liberal Mike Monroney, former Vice Presidential Candidate John Sparkman, and Armed Services Chairman Richard Russell, as well as Hayden, Randolph and Kerr...
...anti-medicare vote, since he was an usher at Kennedy's wedding, is Democratic conference secretary, yet repeatedly votes against Kennedy on key issues ("He hasn't stood up for Jack since the wedding," goes a White House wisecrack). Heavy pressure had been exerted to capture Senator Randolph's decisive vote, including a telephone call from Kennedy himself. It all failed-and apparently because Randolph was indebted to Kerr for amending a welfare bill so that hard-pressed West Virginia could receive $11 million in aid to dependent children. Thus it was really Democrat Kerr, who also...
...larger cities, editorially competitive morning and evening papers sometimes cut costs by sharing the same mechanical plant, the same advertising, circulation and distribution departments. Frequently, the stronger of two papers in a big city buys the weaker one out?a device that Newhouse has used many times. William Randolph Hearst Jr., editor in chief of the Hearst papers, has estimated that if a competitive morning and evening paper each clears $100,000 in annual profit, under the same management they net not $200,000 a year but $500,000. Hearst is presently testing this formula in San Francisco, where...
...dailies having a combined daily and Sunday circulation of 5,700,000, he now owns, in whole or part, more newspapers than anyone else in the U.S.; he has one more than the Scripps-Howard chain, eight more than the shriveled empire governed by the descendants of William Randolph Hearst (although the circulation of Scripps-Howard and Hearst each exceeds that of the Newhouse papers). Nor does Newhouse's ascendancy end there. Scripps-Howard, Hearst, and the whole U.S. newspaper field are contracting. Newhouse is still growing?at such an exponential rate that the price he paid for New Orleans...