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...chant. Mayor John Lindsay, a progressive who only four years ago was one of the most attractive figures in the Republican Party, lost his party's primary last week to a political nobody, State Senator John Marchi. On the Democratic side, Robert Wagner, Lindsay's predecessor for twelve years, lost to City Comptroller Mario Procaccino, an emotional performer whose politics are not merely old but primordial. Though neither could be called racist or bigot, the victors had based their campaigns on one theme: public apprehension over violence and disorder...
...different means, around the U.S. and halfway across the Pacific Ocean, Richard Nixon found heart and voice last week to confront three of the crucial questions that have troubled the nation in the second half of this decade. Their solutions evaded Nixon's predecessor, and Nixon himself has yet to show that he has new answers. But he is now involved and committed, a partisan no longer above the battle...
...college charter of 1650 provides that, besides the President and Fellows, the University treasurer shall be a member of the Corporation George Bennett, the current treasurer, is also president of the State Street Investment Corporation. His Predecessor, as treasurer, Paul C. Cabot, was president of that investment firm and now serves a schairman of its board. Bennett served as deputy treasurer of Harvard under Cabot because he was then vice-president of State Street; he was elevated to Harvard's Corporation when Cabot retired from it. The present deputy treasurer is Mayo A. Shattuck, who is also vice-president...
With the possible exception of former Senator Kenneth Keating in India, the Nixon appointees are the Foreign Service's blandest, most faceless cast of characters of the post-World War II era. Even Keating is a rank amateur compared to his predecessor, Chester Bowles. At the purple and ermine Court of St. James's, Philadelphia Publisher Walter Annenberg, who is inarticulate and inexperienced in diplomacy, replaced a brilliant and popular Foreign Service veteran, David K. E. Bruce. At the U.N., Charles Yost, an able but relatively obscure professional, moved into the chair once warmed by such noted...
...psychology, a somewhat compulsive need to justify and explain himself. But the President's motives seemed straightforward enough. He wanted to use facts to stop press speculation that might prove embarrassing to his friends, and he wanted to contrast the candor of his Administration with the deviousness of his predecessor's. He succeeded in both goals, and he is expected now to repeat the briefing approach when fuller than usual background is again needed...