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Both candidates howled for Baggs's scalp and vainly tried to track down vacationing Publisher Daniel J. Mahoney. Editor Baggs happily summoned his board to assess candidates in other races...
Finally, Mike has been immobilized by the menace of E. L. ("Bob") Bartlett, elected Democratic delegate to Congress for seven terms and widely regarded in Alaska as politically invincible. Bartlett was openly after the Stepovich scalp, and even while announcing for the U.S. Senate, vowed to change his mind the moment Mike declared for Governor. Under pressure of cooler heads, Bartlett reconsidered, reaffirmed his senatorial candidacy "without conditions of any kind...
Shoulder to shoulder in Denver's Shirley Savoy Hotel last week sat 1,200 farmers, farm wives, farm economists and farm politicians, gathered in biennial convention to 1) urge federal farm subsidies ever onward and upward, 2) call for the scalp of Republican Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson-and 3) elect onetime Typewriter Salesman James G. Patton, 55, to his 13th consecutive term as president of the liberal National Farmers Union. Cried Jim Patton, sounding the N.F.U.'s anti-Administration theme: "Our patience has been imposed upon by those in power chiseling away at nearly every program farmers...
...farm's ordinary guests, who pay $400 to $600 a week, it is early to bed and early to rise. On the breakfast tray, along with grapefruit and coffee, the guest finds a schedule card listing, half-hour by half-hour, her activities for the day, e.g., calisthenics, scalp massage, "intracellular masque," daily manicure and pedicure, a reducing ordeal that consists of being coated with hot wax and left to stew. In between treatments, she is firmly encouraged to drink down plenty of vegetable juices, "potassium broth," and a secret-formula "diet...
...routine, while frantic officials whistled out a string of 27 penalties. At game's end (Montreal 4, Boston 3) the skating wounded included Boston's Leo Labine (five stitches in the forehead) and Jack Bionda (mashed hand), and Montreal's Henri Richard (six stitches in the scalp...