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Dole had to use all of his political acumen-and his sharp elbows -during the 1974 Senate campaign against Dr. William R. Roy, a popular Democratic Congressman. In the early stages of the campaign, Roy succeeded in identifying Dole with Watergate and Nixon. Trailing 10 to 12 points in the polls, Dole began to fight. He sent his mother and daughter touring the wide-open spaces of western Kansas in a van, and the family team helped to offset any damage caused by his divorce. To fight the Watergate tag, Dole imported Connecticut's G.O.P. Senator Lowell Weicker...
...girl," said Dad, adding that he would probably keep trying. At the same time, in London, Jason Lawson took his first bow as well. He is the son of Actor Leigh Lawson and former Disney Pollyanna Hayley Mills, who is still awaiting her divorce from British Film Producer Roy Boulting. "I feel married both emotionally and physically to Leigh," said Hayley, "and that is what is most important...
When lung cancer killed Walt Elias Disney a decade ago, there were fears that the world of Disney would lose some of its wonder-and its profits. But before his own death in 1971, Roy Disney, who succeeded his younger brother, and a cadre of post-Walt executives had turned Walt Disney Productions into a thriving empire of fantasy. Today the company is bigger and richer than ever. Profits flow in from Disney's two successful theme parks, Disneyland in California and the magic kingdom at Walt Disney World in Florida, from film rentals and television, from re-releases...
Died. Lord Thomson of Fleet, 82, international press czar; a month after suffering a stroke; in London. A debt-plagued salesman in rural Ontario during the Depression, Roy Herbert Thomson floated a loan to set up a small radio station, then acquired a struggling newspaper, the Timmins (Ont.) Press. From this slender base he built one of the world's largest press and broadcasting empires: more than 140 newspapers and dozens of magazines, TV and radio stations, mostly in Canada, the U.S. and Britain. In London, which became his base of operations in the 1950s, he picked...
Your article on Roy Wilkins [July 12] distressed me. No single person has done as much to bring the N.A.A.C.P. honor and respect as has Roy. The reflection is on the governing body that took steps to discredit...