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Walton, who gave up a career as a Life foreign correspondent to make a living as an artist in Washington, had become a close friend of the Kennedys. He worked in the 1960 campaign in West Virginia and at the Convention; afterwards Kennedy appointed him as peacemaker to help unify...
But all this was prelude to his biggest nonpolitical trip of the week-a two-day sortie to the Far West to meet Canada's Prime Minister Lester Pearson and sign a Columbia River treaty between the two nations. Maybe the presidential jet just kept running out of gas...
Measure of Influence. Two other ma chine men were stopped in New York last week. In the 21st Congressional District, Chief Buckley Lieutenant and five-term Representative James C. Healey lost 20,000 to 22,000 to Reformer James H. Scheuer. In Greenwich Vil lage, onetime Tammany Hall Boss Carmine...
All four victories were shared by one man-New York's Democratic Mayor Robert Wagner. Wagner came out publicly for Farbstein, the only Tammany type the mayor chose to support. The mayor endorsed both Bingham and Scheuer, has long fought to keep Tammany Tiger De Sapio from power. His...
Such Talk Can Ruin. All this would seem to make Bill Haddad a likely Democratic reform candidate in the June 2 primary against Congressman Leonard Farbstein, 61, a Tammany type who is seeking a fifth term in Manhattan's meandering 19th Congressional District. But, of all things, Haddad did...