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...vacancy created by Lyndon Johnson's elevation to the vice-presidency. He ran in an off-election year when voting was well below normal. He ran in a campaign which fielded seventy-three candidates of which he was the lone Republican. In the run-off he faced Democratic William Blakeley who was probably even more conservative, though no one could really be sure. It was, as one Texan observed, "a choice between a McKinley man and a Neanderthal...
Witness for the Prosecution. In Philadelphia, John Blakeley, plaintiff in a drunken-driving case in which his car was clunked, was jailed for ten days for showing up in court intoxicated...
With 28 medical clinic designs behind him, Seattle's Paul Hayden Kirk, 42, has emerged as the West Coast architect who can design just what the doctors order. Two years ago a group of seven Seattle psychoanalysts and psychiatrists, banded together as the Blakeley Psychiatric Group, went to Architect Kirk with a special problem. As one of them stated (with some symptoms of frustration): "Situated in the business district and open to the distractions of an apartment hotel, we run a dismal gauntlet-slamming doors, dripping faucets, a view of an alley, rattling trucks and an s.o.b. who dotes...
...understrength Canadian army into something approaching combat readiness will be a tough job, but Simonds was rated Canada's top field commander in World War II. Tory Leader George Drew called it "the best appointment this government has made in months." Said the Montreal Gazette's Arthur Blakeley: "General Simonds is no soldier-politician. He doesn't understand the art of pussyfooting ... The fur (and dust) can be expected...
Legion of Merit (newest U.S. medal). Navy, 20; Allies, 2. Sample-case: Water Tender Leo M. Savage, who "immediately after the explosion [aboard the torpedoed destroyer Blakeley'] secured the boiler fires . . . shifted fuel oil ... relighted fires . . . contributed to the absence of panic...