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...other hand, many of the G.O.P. survivors are moderates who remained aloof from Goldwater and will vote with the Johnson Administration a good part of the time. They include such potentials toward higher office as Manhattan's John Lindsay, Minnesota's Clark MacGregor, Massachusetts' Silvio Conte and F. Bradford Morse...
...Common-wealth's rotten system which gives away most elections below the top of the ticket by default to one party or the other. All of the state's 12 congressmen, for instance, who had token opposition at most, were easily re-elected. Some of them, like Representative Silvio O. Conte and Edward Boland, deserved re-election anyway, but it would do the others a lot of good if they had to campaign. Similarly, if the Republicans would nominate real candidates for the lower constitutional offices (Secretary, Treasurer and Auditor), they might at least prevent the the Democrats from running...
...Silvio Conte (R-Mass.), a vocal spokesman for the liberal wing of the GOP at the San Francisco convention, has offered to speak to the club...
After one such session in a ninth-floor suite of the St. Francis Hotel, Massachusetts' fiery Congressman Silvio Conte fumed at the ineffectiveness of his fellow Scrantonites. They were, he cried, a bunch of "white-sneakered amateurs," and he added: "I'm ready to pack up and go home...
...putting Italian-born Anthony Celebrezze in the Cabinet, said Massachusetts Republican Silvio Conte, one of a dozen Italian-Americans in the House, Kennedy "has solidified his position with the Italian-Americans. If they had any feelings against him for anything he's done, this will overcome it." Added Rhode Island Democrat John O. Pastore, the only Italian-American ever to serve in the Senate: "It is a matter of pride and prestige." To Kennedy, it is also a matter of votes. In no fewer than 125 congressional districts, Italian-Americans account for 3% of the vote. Heavy urban concentrations...