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Screamers & Jumpers. In early September, at a sweaty, tumultuous Democratic convention in the musty 71st Regiment Armory on Manhattan's lower Park Avenue, Kennedy steamrollered Upstate Congressman Sam Stratton, his only rival, 968 to 153. He won the Liberal Party's endorsement the same day. Aware that the Liberals delivered 406,000 votes to Jack Kennedy in 1960 -more than J.F.K.'s 3 80,000-vote statewide margin of victory-Bobby welcomed their support...
Friendly Fishmongers. At the Democrats' raucous caucus in Manhattan's 71st Regiment Armory, Bobby Kennedy won hands down over upstate New York Congressman Samuel Stratton. The 968,153 vote failed to reflect the resentment of many convention delegates that Bobby is by no stretch of the imagination a New Yorker. On hand to help Bobby, who has yet to win any elective office, were Wife Ethel and seven of their eight children. Daughter Kathleen, 13, promised to campaign for Daddy "if he asks me." Daughter Courtney, 7, was looking forward to residence in New York because...
...scouting out Bobby's chances for the New York seat. The idea appeals greatly to many New York Democratic leaders; they have been desperately looking for a strong candidate to contest Keating, who has a formidable following. But there are dissonant voices as well. Upstate Democratic Congressman Samuel Stratton wants the nomination himself. New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner mumbled his reluctant acquiescence, but he would just as soon not deal with any threats to his party leadership, and the New York Times was plainly against it. While there is nothing illegal about a Kennedy candidacy...
...Stratton insisted that" the commitment to teach is by no means necessarily in conflict with a commitment to research, Indeed, the special quality that should distinguish the modern scientific university and set it apart from the laboratories of industry and research institutes is a total involvement in both the teaching and learning process...
...Stratton listed the recommendations of another faculty committee investigating the curriculum. Among the steps this committee suggested were checks on "excessive preoccupation with grades...