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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...somewhat short of total war. When Daley asked for National Guard troops this month to contain disturbances on the eve of the anniversary of Martin Luther King's death, Ogilvie began moving some 5,000 soldiers within 14 minutes. But that concordat between the old rivals was a rare thing. The Governor is pushing through a stiff anti-fraud voting law aimed at the kind of ballot-box finagling for which Cook County is famous. Another Ogilvie-backed bill would make Chicago's mayoralty election nonpartisan; when candidates must run without official party labels, organizational control over them...
...Ogilvie built his public reputation as a federal prosecutor, gaining wide publicity in 1960 when he prosecuted a Chicago gang boss on income tax fraud. Ogilvie's masklike, bespectacled countenance became a familiar sight on . Chicago television screens, enhancing his image as a tenacious racket buster. As the rare Republican who could win elections in Daley's domain, Ogilvie and the mayor have a longstanding feud. In 1962, Ogilvie was elected sheriff of Cook County, and four years later he won the presidency of the Cook County board of commissioners...
...rare trip from Hickory Hill, Ethel Kennedy flew to Nassau for a few days of sun. And since she was about to celebrate her 41st birthday, her sister-in-law, Jackie Kennedy Onassis, put her husband's yacht Christina at Ethel's disposal for a Bahamian cruise. Close Friends Blanche and lim Whittaker signed on for the voyage too, and when Ethel arrived down south, a surprise present awaited her: a gold charm bracelet appropriately adorned with a jet plane, bus, typewriter, camera and microphone from the 50 newsmen who covered R.F.K.'s primary campaign...
Lately, as the debate on the role of the military gathered force, "Bus" Wheeler kept his own counsel. Last week, in a rare interview, he broke that silence. "You know, there have been only two wars in American history that one might call popular: World Wars I and II," Wheeler told TIME...
...genuinely intimate love scenes, in the comic portrait of Brenda's super-athletic, subhuman brother (Michael Meyers), in the feline mother-daughter skirmishes, Director Larry Peerce (One Potato, Two Potato) has produced some rare moments of high social criticism. But he has an uncertain grasp of his vehicle, and periodically it lurches out of control. At times, Benjamin seems to be playing Dustin Hoffman's gawky second cousin rather than the acrimonious Neil of Roth's story. The film's observations of the nouveau riche Patimkins are subtle enough-until a parody of a Jewish wedding...