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...Stokes wins the primary, he faces a strong challenge in the November election from Republican Candidate Seth Taft, 44, grandson of the 27th President and cousin of Congressman Robert Taft. A lawyer, Taft wants to bring municipal government closer to the people with 15 "branch city halls," promises to revitalize a sluggish urban-renewal program. He is an energetic and knowledgeable campaigner who would probably attract many normally Democratic votes on ability alone. But, in a race with Stokes, he would probably also attract many other Democrats who could just not bring themselves to vote for a Negro...
...much as anyone, Lodge was responsible for persuading Eisenhower to seek the presidency in 1952, and for outwitting the rival Taft forces at the Republican Convention. In the resulting Ike landslide, he then ironically lost his own seat to John F. Kennedy, partly because vengeful Taftites voted en masse for J.F.K. But no matter: for the next eight years Lodge earned international fame as Ike's U.N. ambassador, slugging it out verbally with the Russians in a manner that made him a TV hero...
...intra-party battles for the GOP nomination, this dealer, with a careful eye and a million contacts, has always been a winner, switching over the ideological fence from time to time: through the middle 1950's he worked for the Dewey-Eisen-hower contingents (instead of for Taft, the conservative) and then he shifted to Nixon in 1960 and Goldwater...
...President for arranging the meeting, thanked "the masters of the house"?the Republican college president?for "a roof over our heads under which we could meet." (The roof, as Johnson found to his delight, had in earlier times sheltered such visitors as Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft.) As to the business of the day, Kosygin said he had nothing to add to Johnson's statement: "I think it was very correctly drawn up." But by the time he got to his limousine, Kosygin had a postscript: "War should be a thing of the past...
When the sheriff of Maricopa County laid aside his six-shooters and went to Washington, President Taft's cow Pauline was grazing on the White House lawn, and about the only Roosevelt anyone had ever heard of was Colonel Teddy. Dwight Eisenhower was a cadet at West Point, Lyndon Johnson was barely out of diapers, and John F. Kennedy was not even born. The world has changed almost beyond recognition since 1912, but last week, as Stanford University honored one of its most celebrated alumni with a distinguished service award, Arizona's Senator Carl Hayden, 89, was still...