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...sign of such McGovern success is creation of the Woonsocket Club, a group of about 35 wealthy people most of whom have given at least $25,000 to his campaign. The club is named after the town in South Dakota where McGovern and his wife Eleanor first met and fell in love. The club's chairman, California Real Estate Dealer Harold Willens, explains that the members have "fallen in love symbolically with George." They include Co-Chairmen Liz Stevens of Washington and Marjorie Benton of Chicago, Xerox Executive Committee Chairman Max Palevsky, Los Angeles Manufacturer Miles Rubin, Actor Warren...
...trust their President; the office makes him a kind of national paterfamilias endowed with special authority and wisdom. In any crisis, the instinct is to feel that the President knows best. When Richard Nixon undertook to send U.S. forces into Cambodia, one could hear the same response from Woonsocket to Wichita: He knows more than we do, he must be right. But does a President really have a great deal of special intelligence that is not available to the well-informed, concerned citizen? Sometimes yes, but often the extra facts a President knows are only marginally important...
VICTOR H. BLANK Woonsocket...
DENISE PINCINA Woonsocket...
...Keith Raney '60, of Winthrop House and Greenville, Ohio, was chosen president of the Glee Club in yesterday's executive committee elections. Loring Conant, Jr. '61, of Adams House and Dedham, was named vice-president, and Frederic H. Ford '60, of Winthrop House and Woonsocket, R.I., became secretary. The Club also appointed John B. Goodenough '61, of Adams House and Ridgewood, N.J., as associate manager...