Word: selections
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Losing Constructively. George Leader's long leap from Willow Brook Farm to the Statehouse in Harrisburg could only happen in Pennsylvania politics. Last February, when the state's top Democrats met in Harrisburg to select a gubernatorial candidate, Leader was just an uninvited nonentity. On the face of it, the logical Democratic candidate was Philadelphia's District Attorney Richardson Dilworth, who had given John Fine a hard fight in the gubernatorial race of 1950. But Dilworth, and his friend, Philadelphia's Mayor Joseph Clark, were embroiled in a nasty intraparty battle over a new city charter...
...York State Republican party faces the prospect of an internal struggle for power. For it is questionable whether Dewey can hope to retain even a portion of his earlier political influence. A retiring governor ordinarily has little enough power in the state organization, even if he is able to select his successor. But a governor whose hand-picked candidate goes down to defeat is likely to find himself a political outcast. The result may be a dangerous power vacuum within the state party...
...third day in Manhattan she got down to serious shopping. A saleswoman showed Her Majesty around Hammacher Schlemmer and helped her select about $300 worth of gadgets-including bar equipment, a Scrabble game ("I'm just learning to play") and an umbrella-shaped umbrella stand. At Saks Fifth Avenue there was a mob scene as the Queen Mother bought jeweled cashmere sweaters for Queen Elizabeth (size 12) and Princess Margaret (size 10). "I'm afraid I'm buying too much," said the Queen, with a sudden womanly qualm. But then, in an equally womanly way, she comforted...
Mendes did not stop with the Assembly vote on the London agreement, but drove for a bigger prize: Socialist participation in his government. On the telephone he offered Guy Mollet four Cabinet posts in return for Socialist support. Asked Mollet: Who will select the ministers? Answered Mendes: "Moi." Soon it was common knowledge that Socialist support of the government was only a matter of time...
Briggs will select the women at random from the audience and the audience and the audience will vote on their conducting...