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...Scout even to some friends-is almost everybody's choice for the second spot, closely followed by Reagan. His principal non-admirer is Nelson Rockefeller, not only for ideological reasons (the two are too close in their philosophies), but for personal ones as well. When Rocky visited the Rockford fair in Illinois in 1964, Percy, then in the midst of his losing gubernatorial bid, refused to appear with him. The reason for the snub, presumably, was that Percy was afraid of being identified with a man whose recent divorce and remarriage had punctured his appeal to the distaff voter...
From Byron Center to Kent City, Saranac to Rockford, the voters seemed overwhelmingly unhappy. "It's nothing but taxes, taxes, taxes," growled a Cedar Springs man. "Negroes don't want equality," said a Kent City nurse. "They want superiority." "People want the hell out of that war," declared a Rockford constituent. "When I see L.B.J. on TV," groaned a Caledonia woman, "I almost break my tube-there's no sincerity there...
...plus pure practicalities. Peoria County has 91,715 potential jurors; the city has a new $4,500,000 courthouse. And according to Chicago Judge Herbert C. Paschen, who will handle the Peoria trial (though Speck's lawyer is demanding a Peoria judge), the city was chosen over Quincy, Rockford and Rock Island because "Peoria does not receive Chicago television, and it has less Chicago newspaper coverage than the rest." Peoria County (pop. 202,400) has a total Chicago weekend newspaper circulation of only 8,378, compared with the Sunday Peoria Journal-Star...
...earth, until 1959, when the Vermont Bar Association put up the money to start a clients' security fund. About the same time, the American Bar Association organized a committee "to assist and encourage" similar funds in the other states. The current committee chairman, Attorney Karl C. Williams of Rockford, Ill., reports that four newcomers-Missouri, Maryland, Michigan, Florida-have joined in the first six months of this year, bringing the total to 26 states and 20 local bar associations...
...worked his way up to the United Mine Workers vice presidency when John L. Lewis tapped him in 1935 to organize the Detroit auto workers as Lewis lormed the C.I.O., incidentally giving abor one of its leading lights when he lired Walter Reuther as an organizer; of cancer; in Rockford...