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...such suggestions. "I absolutely, under no circumstances whatsoever, would be a candidate for the vice-presidency," he said before leaving on a Venezuela vacation. "Nor would I accept a draft for the same position." Rockefeller's rejection was not taken as irrevocable. After all, Dick Nixon recalled, Earl Warren had been just as emphatic in his refusal in early 1948, but ran as Dewey's Vice President. Nixon would make no overtures to Rocky for the present, but until convention time he was not rocking the dream boat, either...
...first Lord Ashley Cooper, later the Earl of Shaftesbury, was one of the leading lords proprietor of the English Colonies, and the only one to give his names to the two rivers that form the Atlantic Ocean...
Last week the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Abel's conviction, but in a sharply split (5-4) decision. The four dissenting justices (William Brennan, Hugo Black, William Douglas, Chief Justice Earl Warren) agreed with Abel's court-appointed lawyer that the FBI had no right to use for criminal prosecution the evidence that was seized in the course of Immigration's "administrative" arrest (one not ordered by a court warrant). In his dissent. Justice Brennan charged violation of the spy's Fourth Amendment protections from "unreasonable searches and seizures." But the court majority reviewed each step...
Hoffa's head-hunting-along with its failure-was dramatically demonstrated in another way last week. Uncovered by the New York Herald Tribune's Reporter Earl Mazo was a Hoffa political purge list, containing the names of 87 Senators and Representatives running for 1960 reelection. Sent several months ago to Teamster leaders around the country, it cited four Democratic Senators (McClellan, Mississippi's James Eastland, West Virginia's Jennings Randolph and Tennessee's Estes Kefauver) and five Republicans (South Dakota's Karl Mundt, Ida ho's Henry Dworshak. Colorado's Gordon Allott...
...boom is everywhere. San Francisco now has Earl ("Fatha") Hines, Kid Ory and Marty Marsala. Chicago has Art Hodes, Bill Reinhardt, Franz Jackson and his Dixieland All-Stars, a popular and authentic group, the average age of whose members is 65. In New Orleans the big names are Pete Fountain, Al Hirt, Mike Lala. And almost anywhere the Dukes of Dixieland can be heard. "The customers," explains one jazz critic, "like to get loaded and imitate trombones...