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...instead for the governorship against George Romney, the Republican incumbent. Jerry might well face a financial problem if he opposes Soapy. Williams could probably count on the money support of the state's Democratic organization and, as heir to a toiletries fortune, is personally wealthy. Cavanagh has scant private means. Nevertheless, the mayor bases his hopes on the fact that more than half of Michigan's Democratic votes are in Detroit's Wayne County. "If I run for anything," said Cavanagh, "it will be for the Senate...
...Federal Government, which rarely enough finds itself at a loss to devise ways of spending money, has $2.8 billion cluttering its coffers and scant notion of how to get rid of it. The funds are piled up in nonconvertible foreign currencies from Conakry to Colombo. "We have used all the money we can in every way we can," confessed a State Department official last week. "We are no longer making even a dent in the accumulation. We've got to do more...
...Operation Mallet, hammering at a tunnel-and-village complex a scant 15 miles southeast of Saigon. The Thors: some 2,000 men with tanks and artillery of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division...
...When the votes were counted, Labor's McNamara had walked away with an amazing 5,351-vote plurality. Toby and Tory drew a scant 40.8% of the ballots, and Britnik Gott proved a rebel without a cause: he pulled only 253 votes, and had to forfeit his ?150 campaign deposit. Declared the Manchester Guardian: "The voters of Hull have given Mr. Wilson the clearest message of support he has had since the general election...
Flight of the Middle Class. Field Enterprises is moving into the suburbs at the right time, for suburban dailies have never been more prosperous. While the circulation of metropolitan dailies rose a scant 1.9% from 1945 to 1962, the circulation of suburban dailies jumped 80.5%. The combined circulation of New York City's six competing dailies declined in the past decade, while out on Long Island, the nation's biggest suburban daily, Newsday,* almost doubled its circulation from...