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...DIED. Thruston Morton, 74, two-term U.S. Senator (1957-69) and Republican National Chairman during the 1960 campaign; of undisclosed causes; in Louisville, Ky. A seventh-generation Kentuckian, the Yale-educated millionaire was a leader of the G.O.P.'s liberal wing and an advocate of bold U.S. leadership in world affairs...
...long wanted the job. "It's a tremendous opportunity to move the power of the bureaucracy," he says. Morton has always been a mover within established systems. A Yale graduate, he successfully managed his Kentucky family's milling business and one of his older brother Thruston's campaigns for Senator. In the early 1950s, he moved to Maryland to be a gentleman farmer, but in 1962 he decided to run for Congress. Affable and articulate, he soon became a popular legislator, serving first on the Interior and later on the Ways and Means committees. In those jobs...
Last week a group from the Republican Party's innermost circle sat down for a secret meeting at the national committee office to review this fall's campaign and map tactics for 1972. Among those attending: Mitchell, Finch, Rogers Morton and his brother, former National Committee Chairman Thruston Morton, House Campaign Chairman Bob Wilson and his Senate counterpart John Tower, and Leonard Hall, the architect of Dwight Eisenhower's 1956 campaign. Hall was there because he alone among the group had experience in running a campaign for an incumbent President...
...bristling fight in the House, where debate will intensify from now until the end of June. While the outcome is by no means certain, the industry's cause has been damaged by the retirement of some effective friends in Congress, notably Kentucky's Senator Thruston Morton. Nor have tobacco men particularly helped themselves by their response to the issue of smoking and health. The Tobacco Institute refuses to concede that much more than a health "controversy" exists. One reason for the industry's reluctance to concede a link between smoking and disease is its fear of health...
...hear the lilt of exploding bombs and the music of helicopter gunmen that so enthralled the author of Grapes of Wrath. We hear Thruston Morton pathetically suggest that the existence of a standing military-industrial complex with nothing to do but build weapons and use them might influence policy unwisely...