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...national issues?Viet Nam, law and order, inflation, the Negro revolution and the white backlash. In Ohio, for example, Republican Frances P. Bolton was defeated by Democratic Representative Charles A. Vanik. The deciding factor was Mrs. Bolton's age: she is 83, Vanik 55. In Missouri, Democrat James W. Symington, 41, handsome former chief of protocol for the U.S. State Department, took the suburban St. Louis County district that Republican Thomas Curtis left to run for the U.S. Senate. Symington's name did not hurt him: he is the son of Senator and former Air Force Secretary Stuart Symington...
...Clark Clifford, McNamara's successor as Defense Secretary. went to Capitol Hill to request $227 million as a first installment on Sentinel, he ran into a skeptical Congress. In the Senate, Sentinel was opposed by a potent bipartisan coalition that included such normally defense-minded figures as Stuart Symington, a former Air Force Secretary, and Maine's Margaret Chase Smith. Their arguments: Sentinel is worthless and would merely prompt both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. to build more offensive missiles. Eugene McCarthy interrupted his presidential campaign to denounce the ABM system on the Senate floor and Majority Leader...
...There were those who thought he wanted the nomination for himself; though he vigorously denied it, he was credited with having said that he deserved to be President because "I am twice as liberal as Humphrey, twice as Catholic as Kennedy and twice as smart as [Senator Stuart] Symington." But at the convention, McCarthy, no fan either of the Kennedys, whom he accused of "lavishness and ruthlessness" in the primaries, or of Lyndon Johnson, rose to nominate a man who had no chance at all to win the nomination: Adlai E. Stevenson. "Do not reject this man who made...
State Department Chief of Protocol James Symington, 40, also bade farewell last week. He wants to run for the House as a Democrat in Missouri's traditionally Republican Second District. It might be an uphill fight, but he knows a few things about Missouri politics, having twice helped run successful campaigns for his father, Senator Stuart Symington. Symington's replacement at State will be U.S. Ambassador to Spain Angier Biddle Duke, who held the protocol post for four years before going to Madrid...
...cose to each other, and there are no cliques, such as hurt Harvard two seasons ago. Underclassmen are accepted on the field, just as the six footballers have accepted non-athletes assigned to their K-32 complex (also thrown in have been Jim Tew, Francis Mackey, and presently Fife Symington, who "just sits around and makes fun of these jocks," in his own words...