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...wind of rumor and counter-rumor-would he be "political" or "pastoral," Italian or non-Italian, young long-termer or aged caretaker-mounted through the week until it seemed that the only people not talking about the coming conclave were the cardinals themselves-each aware that any public discussion might bring down on him the accusation (punishable by excommunication if proved) of entering into "pacts, promises or other obligations." When a newsman asked Cardinal Tisserant in the hall of the Consistory if he thought the future Pope might be in the room (which contained almost all the cardinals then...
...onetime Attorney General Herbert Brownell, U.S. Senator Jacob Javits. onetime G.O.P. National Chairman Hall. As a longshot he added Rockefeller, who had been a dependable campaign contributor ($10,000 a year). Morehouse dispatched poll takers across the state to see which name rang bells, was not surprised when Three-Termer Dewey's bonged loudest. But chiming in second place and tolling louder with each sample was Nelson Rockefeller. Realist Morehouse tore up his list, began to pump for Rockefeller. Said he to a gathering of county leaders: "Either you guys support me while I pick the best candidate...
Pointing out that he is the fifth U.S. Senator in seniority, Four-Termer Chavez (first appointed in 1935) argued that New Mexico had to send him to Washington again to keep his chairmanship of the Senate Public Works Committee and of the potent Military Appropriations Subcommittee. Latching on to the recession, Chavez let no week go by without a claim for some new highway, irrigation project or defense installation attributable to his efforts, linked the profits of New Mexico businessmen and the jobs of New Mexico workmen to his Senate politicking. Last week, as New Mexicans went to the polls...
...assignment could be charged off as a 1960 political gambit, it could also be explained by a ruling handed down four years ago when Lyndon Johnson assumed floor leadership. Johnson's dictum: every Democrat should sit on at least one committee of his choice; even first-termers, wherever possible, should have an interesting committee assignment. Estes Kefauver already ranked high on not one but two prime committees, i.e., second Democrat on Judiciary, fourth on Armed Services. On the other hand, Kennedy had served his apprenticeship on the mediocre Labor and Government Operations Committees, was due under Lyndon Johnson...
...Katharine St. George is a first cousin to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but she leans toward the political philosophy of their grandfather, Warren Delano, who said, "I will not say that all Democrats are horse thieves, but it would seem that all horse thieves are Democrats!"* A fifth-termer in the House, she is a proven vote-getter...