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...considered a rules change to prevent delegations from changing their vote after the initial roll call of states. Although Senator Johnson denied any part in the rules-change fight, the proposal for a change had been announced openly at a news conference by Representative Charles Brown, representing Senator Stuart Symington; was not categorically denied as a future possibility by John Connally, representing Johnson; and had been reported as a possibility by Governor Herschel Loveless of Iowa as chairman of the Rules Committee. Thus, as any TIME reporter at the Los Angeles convention can tell you, my story was not "obviously...
DEFENSE: Missouri's Stuart Symington or Washington's Henry M. ("Scoop") Jackson, both Senate defense specialists...
Pray tell, what is the weird-looking instrument being played by the member of Stu Symington's pep band [see cut]? Something new or just a trombone that barely survived a "demonstration...
...diversified manufacturing outfit. Lanphier's outspoken criticisms of the Administration's defense effort and blunt attacks on rival missile makers brought down the wrath of General Dynamics Chairman Frank Pace, who forced Lanphier out. Lanphier then campaigned for his longtime friend, Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington, whose special assistant he had been when Symington was Secretary of the Air Force. When Symington lost to Kennedy in Los Angeles, Lanphier began to look for a job outside the defense field. He found it at Fairbanks Whitney, which does only 5% of its business with the Government...
...meeting, Kennedy told the press with a smile: "Governor Freeman will be in the front line of those considered. Too young? I don't think youth is a calamity. We're all going to get over it." All the while, the forces of Missouri's Stu Symington were being tempted to abandon the presidential race by well-floated rumors of Stu's potential vice-presidential strength. Though Symington himself held fast, Missouri's Governor Jim Blair set the stage for Stu by grabbing the microphone after the presidential balloting and moving for a Kennedy nomination...