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Although the main focus was on Detroit, there were other signs of an impending showdown. Items: ¶ In Washington, Stuart Symington's announcement of his candidacy (see below), with the advice and consent of Harry Truman, had the desired effect of stiffening some Kennedy opposition. ¶ From Washington came word that Lyndon Johnson would declare his candidacy earlier than he had planned-probably after the California primaries in June. Asked if Lyndon would announce before the convention, Rayburn said: "He will at the proper time, if he follows my advice." Had he advised him yet? "Not yet, I haven...
Three weeks ago, on the eve of the showdown Labor Party executive meeting that was to decide on Gaitskell's proposals, 44 left-wing M.P.s broke with their leader over their insistence that Britain should unilaterally renounce its nuclear bomb. One of the dissidents was Richard Grossman, onetime Oxford don. Under heavy pressure from right-wing trade unionists who have no use for the party's intellectuals, Gaitskell last week fired Grossman from his place on the Labor Party's front bench. Gaitskell also demanded a showdown on controversial Clause 4 in the 1918 party constitution, calling...
...Nasser wants to purge it of discredited oldtimers and replace them with a group of young militants who would stir up trouble as the rebel F.L.N. leaders do for Algeria. They would be backed by Cairo and run from Cairo. King Hussein was thus in for another showdown with Nasser. At such times he usually sends for his old troubleshooter, hard-nosed Samir Rifai, to take over as Premier. All Jordan was waiting for the luckless Premier Majali to step down...
Died. Melvin Horace Purvis, 56, wiry (about 130 lbs.) South Carolina lawyer who joined the FBI in 1927, chased car thieves in Texas, pursued minor thugs in Oklahoma, finally became chief investigator for the Chicago area and made the headlines when he bungled a 1934 Wisconsin showdown with Public Enemy John Dillinger (G-men shot two innocent men, killing one), but got Dillinger three months later in a trap outside a Chicago theater, also led the posse that shot down Pretty Boy Floyd; by his own hand (pistol); in Florence...
After the shouting came a test of strength; by more than a two-thirds majority, a bid for delay by the Southern Democrats was beaten. Although the Dixieland band started talking in a polite filibuster, it was clear that, as in the civil rights showdown of 1957, Johnson had the votes to get another rights bill through the Senate...