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...chances are that Mahoney will be defeated in November by Republican moderate Spiro Agnew since large numbers of Democrats will not support a "backlash" candidate. But in New Hampshire, retired Air Force General Harrison Thyng, the most patent right-winger of the lot, has a good chance to capture the seat held by New Hampshire's first Democratic Senator in decades, Thomas MacIntyre. Thyng, who quit the Air Force to run in the Republican primary at the behest of right-wing publisher William Loeb, scored a narrow victory over divided moderate opposition, state party chairman William Johnson and ex-governor...
Many have turned to Labor's fastest-rising star and former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hugh Gaitskell. -The Rivals. Oxford-bred Hugh Gaitskell, sharp-witted and sharp-tongued, was once considered too donnish for the workingman, but now at 49, he has become the right-wing trade unionists'...
The Big Rich. One big reason Murchison is able to swing such varied deals is the tax bonanza enjoyed by all oilmen. This is the depletion allowance which permits them to pocket 27½% of their gross income (up to 50% of their net) before paying a cent of taxes...
Do or Die. As he had done at the last seven U.E. conventions, the C.I.O.'s slim little Secretary-Treasurer James B. Carey moved into the convention hall with a slate of right-wing candidates and a do-or-die campaign to unseat the Reds and bring U.E. back...