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...Buckley's assets is his campaign manager, F. Clifton White, a savvy Republican organizer who engineered Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential nomination. In addition, Bill has scheduled at least eight days of campaigning for his brother in October. Buckley's crucial problem may well be money, since he needs to raise about $1,500,000 in order to make himself known throughout the state...
...school's "guiding faculty," as its advertisements stress, includes Cerf and such other U.S. literary figures as Faith Baldwin, Bruce Catton, Clifton Fadiman, Phyllis McGinley and Max Shulman. "There is probably nothing illegal in the FWS operation," writes Miss Mitford judiciously, but she encourages would-be writers to take state-university correspondence courses for a fraction of the cost...
...course, the U.S. is by no means the only country that has been surprised by the Green Revolution. As Overseas Development Corporation Vice President Dr. Clifton Wharton noted in a recent issue of Foreign Affairs magazine, it "has burst with such suddenness that it has caught many unawares." Long-range planning, he wrote, is urgently needed. "Perhaps in this way we can ensure that what we are providing becomes a cornucopia, not a Pandora's box." That is a challenge-and a promise-that the world can ill afford to ignore...
...Clifton Lewis, one of the city's most outspoken liberals, described his limitations: "Harrold wants everybody to be happy and grow roses and have a football ticket." Journalists at work in the state capitol press room let out a restrained cheer when the wires moved a bulletin on Carswell's defeat...
MICHIGAN STATE. Clifton R. Wharton Jr., 43, is the first Ne gro to head a major American university that is predominantly white. He is less interested in his significance as a black "first" than in enlarging Michigan State University's commitment to his consuming interest - combatting poverty and pro moting agricultural growth at home and in underdeveloped countries. An economist long associated with the Rockefeller-backed Agricultural Development Council, Wharton was endorsed for the presidency by a student-faculty screening committee and elected by the trustees over two other nominees, including Michigan's ex-Governor G. Mennen Williams...