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When Dole, 47, succeeded the hulking, amiable Rogers Morton it was, according to a White House aide, a little like a hungry Doberman pinscher taking over from a St. Bernard. Dole is articulate and often abrasive, a four-term former Congressman who suffered a World War II wound that has made his right arm virtually useless. He has been the President's most vigorous and consistent champion in the Senate since he moved up to that body in 1969. With the political woods now full of potential Democratic contenders, he has had no trouble finding new targets...
...recreation dollar. Fearful that O.T.B. will reduce betting at the tracks, they are urging that 2% of the corporation's handle be applied to the purses to maintain their present level. Under the present law the tracks get 1%. "Offtrack betting will cut into our attendance," insists George Morton Levy, president of Roosevelt Raceway, the first track that allowed off-track betting on a regular basis. "We'll have to reduce our staff, and finally the whole thing could go down the drain." The union representing the clerks and maintenance men at some of the tracks agreed...
Brandeis University alumni voted overwhelmingly yesterday to reject the candidacy of black militant Angela Y. Davis and re-elected Morton L. Ginsberg, a New York lawyer, as president of the Brandeis Alumni Association...
...better idea of his department's work in the West, Interior Secretary Rogers Morton, a Marylander, has decided that he and a dozen top aides will spend the month of August running Interior from the regional office in Denver...
Perhaps the only happy man in the Cabinet, next to Morton, would be Transportation Secretary, John Volpe, who could load lemonade, sleeping bag, and portable power saw into a camper and set off across the American countryside, pausing now and then to picnic and saw down a roadside billboard...