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...mere notion of Kennedy's visiting California seemed to send former Vice President Richard Nixon, deeply involved in a hard campaign to unseat Democrat Pat Brown as California's Governor, into a terrible tizzy. Noting that Robert Kennedy was also speaking in the state, Nixon said: "We welcome them. In November we are going to show these carpetbaggers a thing or two."Asked about this, Presidential Press Secretary Pierre Salinger replied: "I don't know anybody in the United States, no matter in what state he resides, who considers the President of the United States a carpetbagger...
...gains. For one thing. Midwest Republicans no longer carry the burden of Ezra Taft Benson's farm program; now it is Democrats who must carry the cross of Secretary Orville Freeman's plans: > In Nebraska, Fred Seaton, Secretary of the Interior under Eisenhower, is favored to unseat Democratic Governor Frank Morrison...
...president and on how much attention the president devotes to the problems of the College, rather than those of the University or the University's dealings with the rest of the world. College-oriented presidents, particularly those on poor terms with a dean they have inherited and cannot unseat, have tended to restrict the dean's authority...
...Nehru's campaign was the vital constituency of North Bombay, where independent Coalition Candidate J.B. Kripalani hoped to unseat Nehru's left-lining Defense Minister Krishna Menon (TIME cover, Feb. 2). Posters hitting at Congress Candidate Menon's soft stand on Red China's border incursions proclaimed: "Patriots vote Kripalani; Communists vote Menon." Through North Bombay's streets snaked a huge Kripalani procession headed by a phalanx of gaily garbed dancers. The demonstrators displayed a giant set of scales in which a full-sized effigy of Kripalani outweighed an image of Menon...
...Portugal, a somewhat amateurish band of conspirators tried to unseat Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. At 2 a.m. New Year's Day, as heavy winds and rain lashed the wheatfields around Beja, 85 miles southeast of Lisbon, a sentry at the 3rd Infantry Regiment barracks was roused by the approach of four automobiles. Recognizing three of his own regimental officers, he waved the cars inside the gate. But the cars also carried a score of workers from Lisbon's suburb of Almada, and such sworn foes of the Salazar regime as ex-Army Captain João Varela Gomes...