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From the moment he announced his candidacy for Ohio's at-large congressional seat, Republican Robert Taft Jr., 45, let everyone know that he was anti-Kennedy. Displaying an inherited disdain for expensive, expansive government, he attacked President Kennedy for fiscal irresponsibility, "strongarm methods'' and trying to tack "Government controls onto all his programs." Last week, after easily winning his party's nomination. Taft discovered that he would have to keep right on being anti-Kennedy. For Ohio Democrats, to everyone's surprise, nominated an obscure Cleveland real estate dealer whose main political asset...
Rumors of Rebellion. The Strauss party carried the fight to the country. Strongarm squads of both sides brawled in the streets and there were rumors that would not be downed of rebellion and civil war. "The time has come," wrote an Orange Free State Boer to his local newspaper, "when all burghers should be armed . . . with a rifle and a thousand rounds of ammunition. Who knows what lies ahead?" A German South African who had fled from Hitler thought he knew...
Richard Coeur de Lion (Henry Wilcox-on) is passed off as a weak-headed strongarm. He is fed a macaronic tangle of lines that would have choked the poet prince. ("England! France!" pants Mr. Wilcoxon as he paws at Miss Young. "What's it all matter!" And she replies, "One kiss to last through all eternity...
Gangster Jeremiah Sullivan, 46, last week gave a New York Supreme Court judge a tough question to ponder. Strongarm man Sullivan, convicted of coercion, asked that a three-year reformatory sentence be changed to a one-year straight prison term. Reminding the court that he lost his civil rights when he was found guilty of second-degree murder in 1918, ex-Convict Sullivan contended: "You cannot reform a person who has no rights...
...Midwestern isolationist set against a Red background. The band's motto is the old Russian proverb: "S volkami zhit, po volchii zhit"-"He that lives among wolves must learn to howl." With the capitalist wolves, these men propose to talk the wolfish language of power politics-tough, unsentimental, strongarm...