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Democrats were doing their own planning-and they were feeling pretty confident. Meeting in Washington last week, the Democratic National Committee polished off its substantive business in a single session of less than four hours. The committeemen picked Atlantic City as the site for the 1964 presidential convention, set the date for Aug. 24, six weeks after the G.O.P. convention to be held in San Francisco's Cow Palace. One reason for the site choice was that Democrats figure on a rather dull convention in which Jack Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson will be routinely renominated. Atlantic City...
...date of the Democratic Convention-latest in a century-the national committeemen simply did not want a "long campaign." They figured-with some advisory aid from the White House-that Kennedy would look better as a working President during the summer than as a hustings political pleader. And, after all, if things seem to be getting tough, Kennedy can always make one of those "nonpolitical" tours...
Nielsen, which collects 90% of all dollars spent on national radio and television ratings, knew it was the committee's prime target, and its executives came to the hearings armed with a vanload of statistical charts. But the committeemen were not to be diverted by the long-winded, jargonized explanations of the Nielsen modus operandi. "You gentlemen amuse me," California Republican J. Arthur Younger told the Nielsen men. "I have never yet seen anything that sells confusion before like you people...
...Step Backward? Anglican committeemen, high and low churchmen alike, were surprisingly hopeful about bringing the merger off. Said the Rt. Rev. George Sinker, provost of the Diocese of Birmingham: "I think this is the finest opportunity we have had since we turned John Wesley out of the Church of England." The Rev. Leslie Davison, president of the Methodist Conference, went so far as to say: "Denominations have fulfilled their...
Doherty said yesterday that he would create the advisory group in about a week, with the consent of Gov. Endicott Peabody '42. It will have 10 to 15 members, including several state committeemen, and will probably be chaired by Doherty himself...