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...very long, very old Irish jokes and a passing reference to the Congressman's concern for the Cambridge situation. Both have long since departed. The Convention has descended into the introduction--hamstrung by a parliamentary procedure no one understands--of an endless series of remarkably similar caucus resolutions written in obscure legal language. Kids running through the hall have voted both Yea and Nay on all motions and followed their dogs out the huge front doors...
...substantive issues that SFAC might discuss this year, there are two being aired by members. At a caucus of student members of the SFAC held last week it was suggested that the committee take up the problem of University relations with the Cambridge community. A Harvard Committee headed by James Q. Wilson, professor of Government, is expected to report soon on this matter and some students on SFAC think that the body should review the recommendations of the Wilson Committee...
...November, the new liberal coalition of urban blacks and white suburbanites centered around Detroit and Lansing will in all probability take control of the party from old, worn labor-liberal leadership. In the early August party primaries, however, the bi-racial coalition which now calls itself the New Caucus took more than forty per cent of the state. Their muscle was reflected in the September 1 state convention when party leaders in a harmony effort neglected to bring up a resolution calling for a Humphrey endorsement. With Humphrey's anticipated defeat, New Caucus forces will probably be able to gain...
...Politics machine for electing candidates and taking over state party organizations. According to Gore, "we hope to produce politicians with a strong concern for issues and leading their constituency, not with their own prospects of re-election. Most of its founders look upon it more as a "permanent issues caucus" at a national level. Once the November 4 election is over, building a national constituency and fighting for election reform will become the major pre-occupation...
Determined to "shake the foundations a little bit," he mounted a drive to revitalize the stodgy G.O.P. leadership. He helped toss out Charles Hoeven as chairman of the House Republican caucus in 1963 and joined the move to upset Charles Halleck as minority leader in 1965. Both were replaced by Michigan's Gerald Ford. When Ford wanted to give Goodell his reward, Republican veterans gave Goodell his comeuppance. Overriding Ford, they refused to make the ambitious, somewhat abrasive Goodell either the Republican whip or head of the Policy Committee...