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...their own performances. Yet the Workshop's players skip over the more leaden passages with a minimum of difficulty. Hal scott, as the Son, is the most outstanding member of the cast, although too often he chokes dramatically at the end of climactic lines. Don Richards, as The Rancher, and Mary Anne Goldsmith, as the Indian girl Luisa, provide competent support...
...father was Patrick McCarran, who left Ireland as a stowaway at 16, joined the First U.S. Dragoons, went to Nevada to fight Chief Winnemucca's Paiutes, and stayed on as a homestead rancher. His mother was Margaret Shea of County Cork, who came to Nevada as a domestic servant. From his parents young Patrick Anthony inherited a fighting spirit and a love of politics. In addition, he cultivated a trait not generally associated with the Irish: patience...
...South Dakota Republican Francis Case, 57, a World War I marine, country editor and rancher, who favored Douglas MacArthur for the Republican presidential nomination...
...Need to Worry. Today, under mild-mannered President Virgil Rancher, the university's 8,200 students follow their pursuit of culture with the same openhandedness. Though S.U.I, must by law take in all applicants, it needs to worry very little about the quality of its students. For one thing, Iowa itself is the most literate state in the union (i.e., has the lowest percentage-3.9%-of illiterates), and those of its citizens who want only a practical education are either drained off to Iowa State College in Ames, or simply stay down on the farm. S.U.I, is thoroughly committed...
...central committee-a job that would almost automatically make him state chairman next term. A bloc of Nixon's closest political friends, including Congressmen Pat Hillings, Carl Hinshaw and Joe Holt and Republican Glamour Girl Mildred Younger, came to the convention with other plans. The Nixon group backed Rancher Ray Arbuthnot for the job. They held a press conference, at which Hillings said: "Governor Knight conceded . . . that he is trying to control the Republican Party by pressure and brute force." Knight answered with a public charge that "the Nixon Team" (privately, he included Nixon himself in the charge...