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By SAUL PETT (AP Special Correspondent) MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) John Wayne, the elder statesman, gave way, to Everett McKinley Dirksen, the old prairie actor, and the Republican National Convention came alive last night. Rising up from the tundra of tedium and the rhetoric of rigor mortis, it was Dirksen, United States senator, Senate GOP leader, Convention Platform Committee chairman, marigold musketeer, recording star, peerless apostle of the new politics of the age of Elizabeth who gave the delegates their first incisive lesson in the arts of elocution, execution and electrification (rural). Wayne Hood Has Crucial Role In Nixon's Campaign NOTE This article about Wayne role in the campaign of Richard Nixon was written by George H. Armour of the Milwaukee Journal staff, and is reprinted with permission.

Hood is from La Crosse. MIAMI BEACH, the seasoned veterans who direct Richard M. campaign, perhaps none has a more crucial role than Wayne Hood of La Crosse. As midwestern regional director, Hood shepherds the delegate vote in five key states, including Michigan under favorite son Gov. George Romney and Ohio under favorite son Gov.

James Rhodes. The swing of those two with 48 delegate votes and Ohio with considered crucial to drive for the presidential nomination. Also under supervision are Wisconsin and Indiana, whose total of 56 delegate votes are as safe as any at the convention, and Illinois, whose delegation caucused Sunday to deliver 49 of 58 votes to Nixon. This is the third Republican presidential campaign in which the tall, white haired Hood, 55, has served in a top-level staff position. He worked for Dwight D.

Eisenhower in 1952 and for Barry Goldwater in 1964. Political philosophy is not motivating force, although he considers himself a conservative. an organization Hood said. 1952, I was a good friend of Arthur Summerfield and he wanted a (Sen. Robert) Taft backer from a Taft state (Wisconsin) to unify the national Hood, who was state Republican chairman from 1950 to 1953 and a member of the national committee, took the job of executive director of the national Eisenhower campaign in Washington.

must have been a unified Hood said. In choosing a national candidate to work for, Hood places the strength ahead of his ideology. is the strongest candidate we have this year. The primaries, the polls, all show it. In 1964, Goldwater was our strongest Hood reportedly is among those who found the disastrous Goldwater campaign the worst they have been associated with in long political careers.

But the Nixon campaign includes many staunch Goldwater supporters, those wedded to the former Arizona senator ideologically as well as organizationally, and Hood avoids criticism of the 1964 campaign fiasco. Hood operates out of room 1502 at the Hilton Plaza, campaign headquarters. This is his work room. Hood has five telephones in his work room, secretaries on duty throughout the day, and the assistance of Peter Hurtgen, a county Republican leader from La Crosse. Hood is executive vice president and treasurer of Trane Co.

Three of the telephones are outside lines, one is a house phone, and the fifth is to Nixon campaign headquarters. The three floor above work 16th, 17th and are closed to the press. It is here that all of the top level meetings and communications are going on. Wisconsin Republicans are WAYNE HOOD committed to cast their 30 delegate votes to Nixon, but their allegiance to him goes beyond the requirements of the new primary law. Nixon carried the state in 1960 and has been of service to state Republican candidates and the party generally in numerous campaigns and fund raising ventures.

Gov. Warren P. Knowles, chairman of the state delegation, and Ody J. Fish, Wisconsin party chairman and national chairman of the GOP state chairmen, have gone on record unequivocally for a first ballot Nixon victory here Wednesday night. Hood is confident of a first ballot victory for Nixon.

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Dirksen turned alternately imperious, menacing, cajoling, bargaining. he thundered, jowls quivering, silver rivulets of hair flailing, like that of an aroused Zeus. And still there was no quiet. He held up nine pounds of speech texts. be quiet for 45 said Everett McKinley Dirksen, the beguiling negotiator, throw these speeches anywhere you want me to throw ft And then he did, nine pounds of speeches, right over the platform, into the hearts of the peasants.

While it was not precisely clear whose speeches had been jettisoned, it was obvious Dirksen still had his. Now the delegates were quiet and the Pekin Pericles, rising slowly from the Armageddon tones of his basso profundo, began. Philadelphia 181 years ago, far-seeing men fashioned us a revolutionary new govern- SEN. EVERETT DIRKSEN Brings Convention Alive. -AP Wirephoto ment.

He dared Russia to knock the chip off his shoulder. Soviet leader declaims that ours is a rotten, decadent society. God forbid our having to make the point but, should he try us, quickly find out what Americans really The delegates roared. Membrane by membrane, Dirksen peeled off the skin of Great stretching out each syllable of the phrase in a mockery of rubber. how cynical, how mocking that political Never has an undeclared war embroiled America so long.

Never our prestige so low, our alliances so weakened, our image so impaired. Never has the nation been so mired in debt. Now been rocketed to fiscal outer space. Society indeed! It is not a New Deal or a Fair Deal. just a straight-out Misdeal.

Humor it longer, and it will destroy what the Founding Fathers Body swaying, finger pointing out and down as if he were anointing the delegates in holy water, Everett McKinley Dirksen, lay preacher, quoted Abo Lincoln, Oliver Cromwell, Ben Franklin, got the delegates up on their feet and repeating after him, nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for and, with lofty tolerance, finally allowed them to subside back into their seats, fully sated with their first red meat although they never did learn which speeches were thrown away, if any. ADVERTISEMENT Don't Neglect Slipping FALSE TEETH Do false teeth drop, slip or wobble when you talk, eat, laugh or sneeze? be annoyed and embarrassed by auch handicaps. FASTEETTH, an alkaline (non-acid) powder to sprinkle on your plates, keeps false teeth more firmly set. Olvea confident feeling of security and added comfort. No gummy, gooey taste or feeling.

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