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...looked like easy sailing; the Administration's $3.9 billion authorization bill had cleared the House and the key Senate committee with surprisingly light nicks. And opposition to the reciprocal trade bill, scheduled for debate in the House this week, eased up. If Congressional outcries against Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson died away, and the President's veto of the Democratic farm bill was almost sure to stand...
...Coya Knutson, 45, slimmed down and modishly coiffed, was not about to leave Congress, where she had become a carping critic of Republican Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. When her intention to run again became clear, Andy Knutson backed away from his original ultimatum, said Coya could stay in Congress if only she would get rid of her handsome executive secretary. Bill Kjeldahl, 30. Said Andy: "The decisions made in Coya's office are not hers, but Kjeldahl's." But Coya Knutson was having none of that, either. Kjeldahl would stay, cried she. Her life...
...machinery, last week won renomination-but only by 346,554 votes to 198,599 for an opponent who had pledged "not to lift a finger" in active candidacy. The lackluster winner: 42-year-old Governor C. (for nothing) William O'Neill; the loser: former Cincinnati Mayor Charles P. Taft, who had filed only as a "standby" after O'Neill suffered a mild heart attack (TIME...
Part of the sizable Taft vote undoubtedly came from his membership in Ohio's first political family. But another part came as voter reaction against the unimpressive, do-nothing O'Neill administration. The results meant trouble for Republicans in November, when O'Neill must face the man he defeated in 1956: hard-running, fast-quipping Democrat Michael V. Di Salle, who easily won his party's nomination in an election where, for the first time since 1948, more Ohioans voted in the Democratic primary than in the Republican...
...Lawyer Taft's explanation was that his taciturn tactics were aimed not at O'Neill but at Hamilton County G.O.P. regulars with whom he has intermittently sparred since a Taft-led 1924 reform government took over Cincinnati, with reform-minded Charlie Taft later becoming county attorney. When Taft filed for governor, the county organization ordered a rousing anti-Taft vote "to show what Hamilton County Republicans really think of Charles P. Taft." To show what he really thought of the organization and presumably to protect his prestige in future elections, seven-term Councilman and Mayor (1955-57) Taft...