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Board elects two new governors
E. D. Butcher and Ralph S.
O'Connor have been elected
term members of the Rice Uni-
versity Board of Governors,
while Charles W. Duncan, Jr.
was re-elected a term member,
it was recently announced by
Herbert Allen, chairman of the
Board.
Both Butcher and O'Connor
had iserved as; members of the
Board prior to their recent
elections. Butcher was elected
to a four-year term in 1964;
O'Connor, to a four-year term
in 1967. TThey served as Gov-
ernor Advisors after their
terms expired.
Butcher succeeds John W.
'Cox who becomes a Governor
Advisor. Born in Houston,
Butcher received a B.S. degree
in chemical engineering from
Rice in 1934. He is Director,
Vice President and Chairman of
the Executive Committee of the
American Commercial Lines,
Inc. and President and Director
of Commercial Transport Cor-
poration. In addition, he is a
Director of the Harrisburg
National Bank; Aviis, Inc. and
Equity Annuity Life Insurance
Company. Butcher was chair-
man of the Rice University
Fund Council during the 1971-
1972 fiscal year as well 'as
National Alumni Chairman of
the University's $33 Million
Campaign. He and his wife,
Rosadel, live at 5623 Shady
River and have two sons.
0'Conmor succeeds J. Howard
Rambin, who, like Cox, be-
comes a Governor Advisor. A
longtime friend and supporter
of the University, O'Connor is
Chairman of Rice1"® Advisory
Council in Geology. President
of Highland Resources, Inc.,
O'Connor is a member of the
board of directors of Texas
Eastern Transmission Corpora-
tion, Pacific Western Industries,
Texas Children's Hospital and
Texas Southern University. In
additio^i, he is a member of the
American Association of Petro-
leum Landmen and chairman of
the National Alumni Schools
Committe of The Johns Hopkins
University of which he is an
alumnus. He and (his wife,
Macomda, live at 3335 Chevy
Chase in Houston and are the
parents otf four children.
Duncan originally was elect-
ed to the Rice Board of Govern-
ors in 1965 to serve a four-year
term. He was elected again last
February to fill the unexpired
term of William H. Lane who
was elected to the Rice Boai'd
of Trustees. A native of Hous-
ton, Duncan liveis in Atlanta
with his wife, Anne, and their
two children. He was elected
president of the Coca-Cola
Company in November 1971
after serving as its vice presi-
dent since May 1970. The year
after his 1946 graduation from
Rice, Duncan joined the Duncan
Coffee Company, which was
merged into the Coca-Cola
Company in 1964. Duncan has
served the University as a vice
chairman of the Major Gifts
Committee and currently serves
on the Board of Governors Fin-
ancial Affairs Committee.
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RU, UH Sfls El
The Rice and U of H Student
Associations have agreed to a
Whopper-eating contest at the
football game Saturday.
Ten-man teams, each at least
half made up of SA members,
will consume as many Whop-
pers as possible in the limited
time. At UH's request, there
will be no lettuce. Both uni-
vei'sity pi'esidents declined to
participate.
There will be a $300 prize
for the winners and $100 for
the losers; Rice's winnings will
go to the Minority Recruitment
Fund.
At ipress time, the contest
was still subject to final ap-
proval by the football program
people and Burger King.
Democrats in Miami; Fun in the sun and a foe for Nixon
by MIKE ROSS
Everybody came to the Dem-
ocratic National Convention in
Miami Beach to nominate a
presidential candidate to run in
the fall against Richard Nixon.
It was a sweltering mid-July
week for a Party already hot
with internal conflicts.
Senator George McGovern,
the miracle front runner in del-
gates after a well engineered
primary campaign, came to win
the nomination.
Senator Hubert Horatio Hum-
phrey, the 1968 nominee, came
to defeat McGovern, at all costs
of money, beliefs or anything
else.
Senator Ed Muskie, surely
the nominee a year ago, came
out of duty, hoping that he
could rise out of his own ashes.
Governor George Wallace
came to force a conservative
platform, a task he knew was
hopeless.
Senator Scoop Jackson and
Duke University President Ter-
ry Sanford came to pick up the
pieces of a deadlocked conven-
tion on the fourth ballot.
New York Representative
Shirley Chisholm came to raise
the rhetorical level.
Former Massachusetts Gover-
nor Endicott Peabody came to
make a fool out of himself in
pursuit of the Vice-Presidential
nomination.
Foster Grant came to make
a commercial.
And James Boren, the Bu-
reaucrat's candidate for Presi-
dent, came to mock the whole
governmental system with his
slogan: "When in doubt, mum-
ble."
Which brings us to Dolph
Briscoe, the Democratic nominee
for Governor of Texas. Why
did Dolph «come ?
Because he wanted to.
Dolph Briscoe is a very weal-
thy rancher from Uvalde. He
defeated the very liberal Fran-
ces ("Sissy") Farenthold in the
June run-off for the Guberna-
torial nomination. Sissy had
supported McGovern since the
inception of his candidacy, al-
though she kept that quiet dur-
ing the primary race. On the
other hand, no one really knew
what Briscoe's views were. He
had never said- much of any-
thing during the campaign and
Sissy had accused him of being
"a bowl of pablum," which he
was. But after the run-off,
Dolph felt that he had to Unify
The Party. He went out on a
'limb to say that he was going
to run a fair state convention
(which selects the national dele-
gates) and that each candidate
was going to receive his fair
share of the delegates. No one
believed him except his aides.
But he did it.
He offered his campaign
manager as a compromise cho-
ice for permanent chairman of
the convention and drew no op-
position. He saved the McGov-
ern forces from a humiliating
defeat by sticking to his pledge
and apportioning the at-large
delegates to result in a balanced
Texas delegation to Miami
Beach. He asked to be the chair-
man of the delegation and was
so appointed.
Thats why Briscoe was there.
Over 5,000 delegates and al-
ternates, selected under the Mc-
Govern-Fraser guidelines, came
to actually nominate the can-
didate.
.Over 12,000 reporters and
technicians came to report the
proceedings to audiences around
the world.
Several thousand Yippies,
Z i p p i e s, Vietnam Veterans
Against the War, and other
young people came to camp out
in Flamingo Park and pass
judgment on the Democrats and
rehearse for the Republicans.
Paraphenalia people came
to sell campaign supplies to the
visitors or whole campaigns to
office seekers.
Hundreds of volunteers came
to man desks, tejephones and
typewriters for their candidate
or the Democratic National
Committee (DNC), which was
running the whole show.
They all came to Miami
Beach to have fun in the sun
and select a foe for Nixon. The
Democracy that resulted, how-
ever, occupied almost everyone
until the weest of hours, which
kept the bars, nightclubs, taxis,
restaurants and call girls of
Miami Beach unoccupied. Need-
less to say, they don't want us
back.
Miami Beach is one of those
tourist cities. The main street,
Collins Avenue, stretches for
miles along the beach with huge
hotels on the ocean side and
small apartments, cheap res-
taurants and gas stations on
the other side. The headquar-
ters for the convention was on
the DNC bastion, the Fontain-
bleau, a shiny twin towered ho-
tel that also housed many of
the press facilities. Each can-
didate who considered himself
one also had a hotel headquar-
ters. McGovern rented out the
Doral, Nixon's hotel in the 1968
Republican Convention. Hum-
phrey was stationed in the Ca-
rillon which was beginning to
show its years. Scoop Jackson
set up shop in the Montmartre,
which looked more like a motel
than a resort hotel. Muskie and
McCarthy and V-P hopefuls
Peabody and Gravel operated
out of the Americana Hotel,
where there must have still
been a lot of room. It was much
like the dog and master simi-
larities.
Each candidate had his own
style. McGovern's staff cars
had blue "McGovern President
'72" signs on the doors and a
small American flag flying on
each of the front fenders. Hum-
phrey littered the streets and
buildings with pictures of him-
self. The only people wearing
"Sanford for President" but-
tons were Sanford's legion of
volunteers, quietly making
friends with everyone. Poor Ed
Muskie could do little right. His
flyers had a shadowy picture
of an empty expressioned Mus-
kie and text on the reverse
printed in green headed by, "Ed
Muskie has been giving clear
answers."
The political sewage flows
freely at a convention.
Endicott "Chub" Peabody
bambied about talking to many
more people than cared to lis-
ten to his drivel.
The tone of Miami Beach was
tense optimism on the first day,
but the grind began and the
delegates got serious in a hur-
ry.
The Texas delegation was
quartered in the Marco Polo
Hotel, some ten miles north of
the Convention Center. In audi-
tion to the daily Texas caucuses
to issue credentials for admit-
tance to the evening sessions,
there were women caucuses,
youth caucuses, black caucuses,
chicano caucuses and even a
senior citizen caucus, each of
which usually met far down the
coast near the center of activi-
ty. Transportation was always
a problem.
Caucuses were strange gath-
erings of vocal delegates and
alternates of similar interests,
all of whom seemed to have dif-
ferent solutions to pompously
unimportant problems. Invari-
ably they fell into parlimentary
disarray. Few accomplished
more than electing a chairman.
The women's caucus got bog-
ged down discussing demands
for equal representation on
committees. The blacks were
serenaded by all of the candi-
dates left of Scoop Jackson and
finally retreated into closed
session whei'e disputes arose
between ardent Chisolmites, de-
termined and disciplined Mc-
Governites and the old-line
Humphreyites. The chicano cau-
cus had somq semblance of or-
der, possibly because it was
the smallest. They elected two
co-chairmen and decided to
nominate New Mexico Lt. Gov.
Roberto Mondragon for the Vice
Presidency. Later, they changed
their mind and put up New Jer-
sey Rep. Radino instead.
See Democrats, Page 9
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