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Successful political Candidates usually ascribe their victories to the wisdom of the voters. But not the Rev. Robert Drinan, the Jesuit who last week upset Congressman Philip Philbin, a 14-term House veteran, in the Massachusetts Democratic primary. "It was a miracle," said Drinan, who is on leave from his deanship at Boston College Law School. It was, however, something a lot more mundane that made Drinan almost a sure bet to become the first Catholic cleric in 145 years to go to Congress...
Enlarge GM's Board of Directors from 24 to 27 seats, adding three representatives of the public. The group's candidates were Betty Furness, President Johnson's special assistant for consumer affairs; Rene Dubos, a University of Chicago biologist and environmentalist; and the Rev. Channing Phillips, a civil rights leader in Washington...
...REV.) ROBBINS RALPH Avon Park...
Communist Role. This year, pitted against the aging Alessandri and the arrogant, lackluster Tomic, Allende was more successful. He played hard on such ancient grievances as poverty, foreign "exploitation" and the crippling inflation rate, and won a wide range of supporters, including a few liberal clergymen. Declared the Rev. Hernan Larrain: "There is no incompatibility between being Catholic and voting for a Marxist." Even so, Allende was opposed by more than 60% of the electorate. In the view of many observers, he owes his victory to the fact that President Frei was not permitted by the constitution to succeed himself...
Last week, according to his own time table, Gushing at 75 resigned his post as spiritual head of 1,900,000 Catholics. To replace him, the Vatican named the Most Rev. Humberto S. Medeiros. a little-known bishop of a small South Texas diocese. For the first time in 124 years, Boston will have a non-Irish prelate at its helm. It is more than a mere change of the guard. Gushing, despite his progressive programs, basically represents the traditional church, while Medeiros is symbolic of the more involved social activism that is sweeping the church today. The new head...