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...primary convention to be held at Springfield next week-end, McCormack is not so openly confident as his staff. "You can't be optimistic," he shrugged: "I'm not counting anyone who says he's 'leaning towards me'." He knows that it will take real political guts for a delegate to stand up and be counted against the Kennedy family. Obviously that clan will be influential for some time to come, and the extent to which the President actually backs his brother's campaign is devilishly ambiguous. The official silence from the Washington branch is little solace to the convention...
...less than enthusiastic about this provision, too. Why, they wonder, should men put out of work by competition from imports receive special attention? Implicit in this objection is a strong dissent from the President's reliance on trade to solve the problem of Creeping Unemployment. Reuther's statement last week-end, that he would seek a national 35-hour week unless something serious was done about the problem, reflects this dissatisfaction...
Died. Major General Ralph Emerson Truman. 81, U.S.N.G. (ret.), testy first cousin of Harry, a onetime Spanish-American War corporal and World War I captain who, as an ardent week-end warrior, never forgave the Regular Army for relieving his command of the 35th Division, a Missouri-Kansas National Guard outfit he helped form, on the eve of World Wrar II; of a heart attack; in Kansas City...
...Harvard Council for Undergraduate Affairs last night voted to establish a permanent Freshman Jubilee advisory committee to look into the fate of Jubillee week-end and, should the event be continued, provide advice to future Jubillee commitees on the proper manner to organize...
Several council members pointed out, during discussion, that they supported the motion under the understanding that HCUA was not "implicitly endorsing the continuance of Jubilee Week-end...