Word: governor
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That was bleak news, and New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, once again the dominant spokesman for the nation's Governors, refused to accept it. He changed the subject from the peace dividend to what is known as the "growth dividend," resulting from the normal expansion of the U.S. economy. Rockefeller reported that a study commissioned by the Governors Conference Committee on Human Resources, which he headed, had produced some interesting figures. Never mind whether any money comes from the slowdown in Viet Nam; the study projected that federal revenues would increase by $15 billion in 1970, $16 billion...
Johnson might not be able to resist the temptation to play kingmaker in next year's Senate race. Democrat Ralph Yarborough, an old L.B.J. foe, is up for reelection, and two possible opponents, Republican Representative George Bush and Democratic Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes, have both been out to the ranch. So have two old cronies, Federal Judge Homer Thornberry, whom Johnson unsuccessfully nominated for the Supreme Court last year, and Frank Erwin, a longtime intriguer in Texas Democratic politics...
...hard time using it. The Nixons entertain so much that Agnew has been called on only once to throw an official dinner. The Agnews live in a four-bedroom Sheraton-Park Hotel suite, which they find adequate despite its obvious contrast with their previous quarters, the 54-room Maryland Governor's mansion in Annapolis. Their counterpart of San Clemente is the same paint-flecking seashore cottage in Maryland that they have rented for years. A big Saturday night at the Agnews' consists of Judy cooking spaghetti and the family then settling down to watch a current-run movie...
...Martha's Vineyard for 38 years, Boyle must control the tone as well as the direction of questioning in the "nonaccusatory" proceeding. A 1929 graduate of what was then the Southeastern Massachusetts Law School, Boyle, 62, served as Dukes County Superior Court clerk for 27 years before former Governor John A. Volpe appointed him to the District Court bench in 1961. Some observers question his judicial competence, and one acquaintance asserts that Boyle was so innocent of the law that he thought he could remain superior court clerk even after his appointment to the District Court...
Died. Albert Lingo, 59, chunky, bespectacled Alabama state trooper who, as former Governor George Wallace's state public-safety director from 1963 to 1965, led troopers armed with tear gas and electric cattle prods in bloody attacks on civil rights demonstrators in Birmingham and Selma; of a ruptured aorta; in Birmingham. "I am not a Nigra-hater," Lingo once said. "I've played with 'em, I've eaten with 'em and I've worked with 'em, but I still believe in segregation. You can say that some of my best friends are Nigras...