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National Republican leaders hurried to back Mitchell. Dick Nixon rounded up money, and Dwight Eisenhower whipped out a $100 bill as the first contribution. On the stump, Mitchell showed himself to be a witty, effective campaigner. He maintained that he could lead both labor and business to a revival of New Jersey's sagging industrial growth, but his main point was: "I am the only Republican who can win in November." This claim so infuriated organization Republicans that State Chairman Charles Erdman, an organization man, resigned rather than preserve even token neutrality...
Even some Australians agree that Melbourne lies somewhere "behind the black stump" or, in current American, that it is a district of Squaresville. But Melbourne has its hipsters too, most notably a curvy, carrot-haired former choir singer named Diana Trask. Promoted from choir to nightclubs, Diana used to do Waltzing Matilda for visiting Americans. Discovered by Frank Sinatra and soon signed up by Columbia Records in New York, she has cut a series of briskly selling singles: Matilda, Long Ago Last Summer, Our Language of Love, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry. Now, with her first album...
...turned his thoughts to a new Cabinet that would probably include most of the now chas tened politicians who had dared oppose him on Lavon. The outcome represented something less than judicial fairness to Lavon, who may now bolt the party and try to fight Ben-Gurion on the stump at the next election. But it served as notice that the 74-year-old Prime Minister is not only running Israel, but controlling the line of succession as well...
...Luzon's rural slums, Macapagal is a professor of law and doctor of economics who became a strolling actor to help pay his way through law school, and won campaign points by improvising Tagalog poetry right on the stump. Barred these three years from the government's councils by the jealous Nacionalistas, Vice President Macapagal has had little to do but recite an occasional poem in the boondocks, cultivate his excellent relations with the Americans, denounce the Garcia administration for venality and torpor, and impatiently await the Liberal hour. Now he proclaims himself the spokesman...
...Nixon or Muriel Humphrey, Jackie takes no part in her husband's political planning. "Jack wouldn't-couldn't -have a wife who shared the spotlight with him," she says. Her political role is mostly visual: she is never consulted about political matters. On the stump...