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When Richard Nixon's entourage vis ited the White House, one campaign aide expressed surprise at how "cellularized" Lyndon Johnson's staff is. Nixon intends to change that. The group of personal assistants he began to assemble last week is being billed as a select cadre of versatile generalists, As one aide put it: "We don't want specific people locked into specific boxes...
...drifted in dangerous uncertainty for weeks or even months. The possible scenario has become amply familiar. Wallace might have tried to barter his electors for concessions from one of the major candidates between Nov. 5 and Dec. 16, when the electors will cast their ballots. If he failed, the selection of the next President might have been thrown to the House of Representatives, where another deadlock might well have resulted. Democrats in the new House will outnumber Republicans, 243 to 192 (the old lineup: 247 Democrats, 188 Republicans) but each state delegation would have had only one vote, dictated...
THESE ARE all problems of presenting news or commentary from a correct viewpoint; it also might be worth considering a possible result--loss of the broad circulation base. The newspaper thus would end up with a more select readership--namely, those who agreed with its viewpoint--and therefore by ordinary definition no longer would be a newspaper...
Harvard has named the committee to select the newsmen who will come here next year as Neiman Fellows. They are Chicago Daily News Editor Roy M. Fisher, Milwaukee Journal Associate Editor Paul Ringler, member of the Board of Overseers and Boston Globe Publisher Davis Taylor, astronomy Professor and Master of Adams House William Liller '48, Harvard News Officer William M. Pinkerton, and Nieman Foundation Curator Dwight E. Sargent...
...none of the candidates receives a majority of the electoral votes, the House, with each state's delegation allotted one vote, immediately begins balloting to choose a President from among the three who scored highest in the electoral count. The Senate, meantime, withdraws to select a Vice President from between the two who scored highest for that post in the electoral vote...