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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, March 11, 1964
Treacherous Primary Road Has Tripped GOP Hopefuls
By Lyle C. Wilson United Press International
Upward of a dozen presidential primaries still are to come and the greatest of these takes place June 2 in California. The Republican who can win the California primary decisively probably can be nominated for president.
It is almost as simple as that, but not quite.
Fifteen states and the District of Columbia authorize presidential primaries. The presidential primary system more often eliminates contestants than it designates winners. Sometimes a primary does a bit of both.
THE BEGINNING OF the end of Sen. Robert A. Taft's White House dream came in New Hampshire's March, 1952, presidential primary. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, a reluctant and uncertain candidate, won all 14 New Hampshire delegates to the Republican National Convention. Ike took 46,000 popular votes to Taft's 35,000.
Wisconsin's presidential primary in April, 1944, blasted Wendell L. Willkie entirely out of the contest
for a Republican presidential renomination. Willkie was a bad last in a field of four in Wisconsin after a good New Hampshire beginning. He had been the 1940 Republican nominee.
Harold E. Stassen made a good start toward the 1948 Republican presidential nomination. The Republicans could have lost in 1948 only by conducting an unbelievably inept and superficial campaign, which they finally did. Stassen showed well in New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.
Thomas E. Dewey knocked Stassen clear out of the contest in the Oregon presidential primary.
THE LATE SEN. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee was the handiest Democrat of his generation in presidential primary contests. Kefauver was a handsaking baby kisser, a tireless parader up and down the main streets of small towns.
But his remarkable presidential primary successes never paid off with presidential nomination. The best Kefauver could do was the vice presidential nomination on a
losing ticket in 1956 with Adlai E. Stevenson.
The primary system of indicating a preference for individuals seeking national and local office was established in 1903 by the late Robert M. LaFollette Sr., then Governor of Wisconsin. He caused the Wisconsin Legislature to enact the first statewide direct primary law.
The primary system responded to popular demand for elimination of the existing evils of nomination by party conventions or, as strikingly phrased by the late Raymond Clapper, nomination in a smoke-filled room.
Such nominations frequently were corruptly obtained and often picked not the best but the least desirable nominee. Most states now nominate for state and local office by primaries. But only 15 states and the District of Columbia provide for presidential primaries.
Politicians shudder at the thought that the presidential primary system may be extended to all 50 states. Politicians scarcely could be healthy or wealthy enough to survive preference primary campaigns in all 50 states and the District.
Tickets go on sale today for the University Theatre's production of "The Tempest."
--professional actor Arnold Moss will star in the play which is being produced in observance of the four hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare's birth. Moss has starred or been featured in Broadway plays and Hollywood films, and has appeared in leading roles on television and radio. He is best known for his leading roles in Shakespeare's "The Tempest," "King Lear," "Measure for Measure," and "Twelfth Night." In a movie, "The Fool Killers" soon to be released, he appears with Anthony Perkins.
A native of New York City, Moss has been director of the College Theater at Brooklyn College (1933-39), and director of the American Shakespeare Festival Theater and
The play will be at 8:15 p.m. on the evenings of March 18-22 at the University Theatre in Murphy Hall.
The public enjoys the primaries. They are colorful and interesting.
Steak Dinner
'Tempest' Tickets on Sale
World Spotlight
LONDON—(UPI)—Britain rolled out its ceremonial guns today for booming salutes to Queen Elizabeth II and her newborn third son,latest heir to the British throne.
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Messages of congratulations poured into Buckingham Palace from all over the world for the 37-year-old Queen, who gave birth last night five days ahead of schedule. The baby, as yet unnamed, and mother were both reported doing fine.
The nation's joy at the birth of the Queen's fourth child was expected to be given audible and colorful expression today by a 41-gun salvo fired from pennant-decked warships and 21-gun salutes by troops in London's Hyde Park and on the banks of the Thames River outside the Tower of London. The Royal Air Force planned a flypast over Buckingham Palace.
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Snyder said he gave chase to a black sedan which passed his radar patrol car at 76 miles per hour in a 30-mile per hour zone. The officer said the speeding car hit a bump at Holly Street and bounced into the air.
Snyder searched Liston following a short chase, he said, and "found a gun in his coat pocket and told him he was under arrest."
"I am absolutely delighted," the queen's husband, Prince Philip, said last night following the birth. A champagne toast was drunk in the palace to "the baby prince."
Liston spent less than an hour in jail, and then was charged with careless and reckless driving, carrying a concealed weapon, and driving without an operator's permit. He posted $300 bond. Police said he had $815.94 with him.
Ex-Champ Arrested
Mobs Hit Embassies
Liston, a Denver resident who lost his heavyweight crown Feb. 25 to Cassius Clay in Miami Beach, Fla., was arrested on an East Denver Boulevard not far from his home by Patrolman James (Buster) Snyder at 10 p.m.
"Our youth must be understood, if not excused," he said. "Whoever humiliates Cambodia humilates them and arouses their anger."
DENVER—(UPI)—Charles (Sonny) Liston who turned his tough talents into dollars as heavyweight boxing champion of the world, was arrested last night for carrying a concealed weapon and speeding.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia—(UPI)—Cambodian demonstrators attacked and damaged the American and British embassies today and Chief of State Prince Norodom Sihanouk said he would apologize immediately for their "excesses."
The demonstrators broke most of the windows in the U.S. embassy with stones, ripped down the American flag, raised the Cambodian flag and smashed a car parked in front of the building.
He added that he could hardly blame the demonstrators for their anger against the United States and Britain, although he deplored their violence.
Sihanouk told a news conference shortly after the demonstrations that "these acts do not conform to our morality or our Buddhist education."
There were no immediate reports of injuries.
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Academy at Stratford, Conn. (1955- 56).
Tickets are available at the University Theatre Box Office in Murphy Hall. Students can obtain a ticket by presenting their fee payment and ID cards.
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