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...long and complicated, there is every chance that a vast majority of citizens will save themselves trouble by voting straight tickets. Thus Percy spotted a chance not only to enhance his own candidacy but to end up as Governor with a genuine Republican assembly by cleansing the G.O.P. slate of West Side bloc leaders. And that is what he set out to do. "We have a special problem in Illinois that beclouds our reputation and helps keep Republicans at home," he said. "I mean the West Side bloc...
Better to Belong To. Marked for purge were six men, including Assembly Majority Leader "Bingo Bill" Murphy and Assembly Appropriations Committee Chairman Peter Granata. Put on Percy's slate were such men as Dwight Eisenhower's brother Earl, 66, the public relations director of a suburban Chicago newspaper chain, which insisted that he resign his job to make the race; onetime Chicago Daily News Reporter and Scandal Sleuth George Thiem, and former TV Weatherman Clint Youle...
...public. Because of brisk demand, brokers will limit purchases by individual customers to 50 shares or less, and then the shares will be traded on the New York Stock Exchange. The public will elect six directors. But small shareholders seldom take the initiative to put up a slate; the public directors of Comsat Corp. will probably be nominated by the Government-appointed organizers of Comsat. It thus looks as if the commanding voices in the new space communications company will belong to President Johnson and A.T. & T. Chairman Frederick Kappel...
...Alabama, Wallace scored the first real victory of his noisy presidential campaign. Alabama's voters overwhelmingly chose a Wallace-backed slate of ten presidential electors over a slate, endorsed by U.S. Senators Lister Hill and John Sparkman, pledged to support the national Democratic ticket. What that means is that Alabamians will probably not be able to vote for Lyndon Johnson in November, since his electors will not be on the ballot. And no matter how Alabamians vote, the Wallace electors will do as Wallace says...
...election was to renew the rubber-stamp National Assembly-which, according to Hanoi, also represents South Viet Nam-and the vote was of course neither free nor democratic. The slate of candidates had been care fully chosen beforehand. But the West, which gets precious little news out of the tightly closed country north of the 17th Parallel, watched the election carefully. The real outcome might not be clear for months, but which candidates were picked, and the margins by which they were allowed to win, might provide clues to the power struggle obviously going on inside North Viet...