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...many votes that normally would go to the P.D.P. nominee. Barring a three-way race, Negrón is slightly favored to defeat New Progressive Party Candidate Luis Ferré, a fervent advocate of statehood and the only other significant candidate. If the Popular Democratic Party should indeed splinter, the era of Muñoz and of steady commonwealth status may be ended...
Through the Ranks. Humphrey aides reason that if anti-Administration Democrats form a splinter party or organize a massive write-in campaign for McCarthy, the Republican nominee might well walk into the White House through the Democrats' shattered ranks...
...party that suffered most of all was the Movement for Reform, a centrist splinter group that was hastily organized as a protest against Gaullism by De Gaulle's onetime Agriculture Minister, Edgar Pisani. It was wiped out on the first ballot. In fact, the only opposition group that made any gains was the small United Socialist Party, which almost doubled its voter strength -to 4% of the total. Even so, the party's chief, former Fourth Republic Premier Pierre Mendès-France, was by no means certain of retaining his Assembly seat in a runoff contest with...
Less than a month ago, he was planning his third senatorial campaign. But Morton's depression, for himself, his party and nation, was too much. Last week he announced his retirement. Creating a vacuum that could splinter Republican power in Kentucky, the 60-year-old Morton told the press: "To use an old Kentucky expression, I suppose I am just plain 'track sore...
...make it tonight, don't give up. There's always room. Just come down to the Crimson before Sunday and leave a note for RDP. Those Spring sports are just around the corner--what better way to spend a sunny day than watching a baseball game in Splinter Stadium...