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...stepped down as chief executive officer, handed the title over to Strouse. But the presence of the grand old man. who still came to his office, was inhibiting to Strouse and his management group. At last January's board meeting, Resor's name was not on the slate; he continued as chairman only until the first meeting of the new directors. With Stanley Resor finally departed, Thompson is firmly under the control of Strouse, who is more of an administrator than a man who conceives grand programs and coins remarkable slogans...
...club's elections an angry young committee sent around a circular letter protesting "present conditions in the club," and attacking its executives for lack of purpose. Yet, despite this uproar, last night's election meeting, attended by 26 per cent of the club's members, voted in an entire slate of new officers unopposed. One can only conclude that nobody really means what he says in the HYDC...
...Kennedy rebels wanted to purge Mississippi's William Colmer from the committee and replace him with a Rayburn man. Colmer seemed fair game since he had supported the independent presidential-elector slate in Mississippi rather than Kennedy-Johnson". Rayburn vacillated between the purge and his three-new-member plan, a less drastic break with House traditions and Southern feelings. His mind once made up on committee packing, he announced a "binding" Democratic caucus, a rare device by which a two-thirds vote can bind all members of the party to vote for a particular proposal. Again Mister Sam wavered...
...victory brought B.C.'s season slate to 5-0, while the Crimson's record sagged to 3-2. A loss to B.C., one of New England's very best teams, is not necessarily humiliating...
...course, none of this stuff about universal suffrage applies too rigorously to the South. Yet the Southern electorate, such as it is, in every state but two chose electors pledged to one or the other of the major Presidential candidates. In Mississippi, a Barnett slate of unpledged electors defeated both Kennedy and Nixon; in Alabama, a hybrid group composed of both unpledged and Kennedy electors won easily in the absence of a "pure" slate of either kind. In Louisiana, the unpledged electors were defeated by Kennedy...