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Harriman, Left Wing Wall Street Banker, Rarest of Political Birds By LYLE C. WILSON Washington U.R) Maybe those Wyoming folks didn't know it. but when thev heard "rT! New Y o r k's j"" Gov. Averel! Ha rriman an- i"'' . M nounce ms cari es 2 J5J , president, they V- 4-yle C wiUod were listening to the rarest of all the political birds. Harriman is left wing Wall Street banker. He was principal partner (1920-31) of W. A. Har riman Co., Inc., and a partner until 1946 in the merged Brown Brothers Harriman and Co. The current Who's Who states that the governor since 1946 has been a limited member of that partnership. Harriman could say with con siderable accuracy that he is mighty near all things to all men. He scored as a wartime New Deal administrator and dip lomat. He continued his diplo matic career under President Truman. He was in big business before that. Makes Amateur Try Harriman made an amateur pitch for the 1952 Democratic presidential nomination. It was so ill-timed that there was some questions whether he actually was a resident of Washington, D.C., or New York state. The only significant thing about Harriman's 1952 political spasm was the fact that he ran to the left of all other candidates. He was a 100 per cent Harry S. Truman man. Mr. Truman is said by insid ers to be paying off that compli ment now by master - minding the Harriman pre - convention presidential campaign. Harri man will be running again this year to the left of all other Democratic pre-convention can didates, a position of strength in some ways and weakness in others. The strength is largely potential because Adlai E. Ste venson is best man in many left wing political areas, and Harri man's chances for the nomina tion rest wholly on the chance that Stevenson can be stopped. That would bring a heads-on convention contest between Harriman and Sen. Estes Ke fauver . of Tennessee. That is where Harriman's weakness would come in sight. He is weak in the South, where the left wing is not loved and the inte gration of races at the school and other levels is a rampaging issue. There are southern poli ticians who would happily vote for Stevenson this year who be lieve much of the South would bolt a Harriman ticket. The Democratic national convention will have to consider that in de ciding what to do about Harri man. Strong Anti-Red Although his political back ground is leftish, Harriman is clean on the issue of Commu nism, which is sure to be raised again in this campaign against the Democratic party. Harriman dealt long and often with the Russians in Moscow and at home. He found them danger ously untrustworthy and said so. He's on record. The governor might satisfy the most conservative . politico on the basis of his big business background, even leaving his banking connections cut of it. Did he ever meet a payroll? He did. Two years after taking a Yale degree, Harriman, who started out as a track waMcer, became'' vice-president, pur chaseses and supplies, of' the Union Pacific railroad the first track walker to make the- grade so fast. It is true that he inher ited the railroad from his fa ther, but his railroading record was good. From 1932 to 1946 he was chairman of the board, and pre viously he had served as board chairman of the Merchant Ship building Co. Soviet Envoy Calls On State Department Washington ftj.R) Soviet Ambassador Georgi N. Harou bin conferred at the State De partment for 30 minutes today. He declined to say what he talk ed about. "We discussed many things," Zaroubin said as he left the office of Deputy Undersec retary of State Robert Murphy. There was speculation that Zaroubin and Murphy had re newed their talks on the fur seal problem in' the Pacific. The two countries, in cooperation with other nations, have been trying to protect fur seals in the North ern Pacific. Murphy was understood to have presented a compromise plan to Zaroubin at a previous state Department meeting. Nebraska Results Ease GOP Fear Of Revolt in Farm State Areas Washington JU.R) Nebraska primary results gave Republi cans more evidence today that the political revolt in the farm belt may not be all they feared it to be. President Eisenhower's vote in Tuesday's GOP presidential pri mary in nominally Republican Nebraska was running ahead of Sen. Estes Kefauver's count in the Democratic primary by a margin of about 9 to 5. The vote was very light apparently less than half the total cast in the contested presidential primaries four years ago. Neither Mr. Eisenhower nor Kefauver had opposition in his respective primary. The Nebraska vote was watched for fresh clues to farm sentiment, which alarmed the Republicans after the Minnesota and Wisconsin primaries. There was a sharp increase in the Dem ocratic farm vote in those two states, in which voters are free to cross party lines in primaries. Not Wide Open Primary Nebraska, the first major wheat growing state with pri maries this year, does not hold the same type of wide open pri maries. However, voters in rural areas and towns with less than 7,000 population can move across party lines making a shift of the farm vote possible. But Mr. Eisenhower appeared to have won about 64 per cent of the vote cast in the presiden tial preference primary. In the 19d2 primaries 65.5 per cent was cast in the GOP primary and in the 1952 election 69.2 per cent of the vote went to Mr. Eisen hower. In Tuesday's balloting, Ne braska Republicans elected 18 national convention delegates and Democrast chose delegates with 12 national convention votes. These delegates are not bound by the presidential prefer ence vote but are expected to follow it this year. Rivals in Northwest As the Nebraska votes were counted, the three chief rivals for the Democratic nomination concentrated on the- Pacific Northwest. Gov. Averell Harri man of New York moved into Washington state Tuesday night. And in Oregon Kefauver and Ad lai E. Stevenson shared a plat form for the first time in- their campaigns. They spoke to about 5,000 persons in a University of Oregon gymnasium at Eugene. Stevenson said meeting his "tall friend from Tennessee" in a basketball court definitely made him the underdog. Interrupts Tour Kefauver interrupted his Ore gon tour to fly here to vote on the Niagara power bill. He an nounced he would return to Ore gon Thursday to follow .the schedule originally fixed for to day. Stevenson was scheduled to wind up his Oregon swing and return to California where he and Kefauver are matched in the State Near Conclusion In Meier & Frank Case Portland U.R) The state was expected to wind up its case to day against Mrs. Joyce Keller, accused accomplice in the Meier & Frank department store ex tortion bombing. The defense was bostere'd yes terday when blind William Clar ence Peddicord, confessed bomb er of the store, refused to testi fy before the jury against his sister - in - law. Peddicord was held in contempt but still refus ed to give testimony. June 5 presidential primary. They are competing for write-in votes in the Oregon primary Friday. Harriman, who has made it clear this week that he is an eager candidate, planned speech es at Pullman, Wash., and Idaho Falls, Ida. Until now a self-styled "in active" candidate, he said Tues day night that he was a "non active candidate." 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This helps to increase the coverage of each lecture and also gives the professor addi tional time for other educational efforts. Closed-circuit television is a system in which each set is con nected to the camera by wires rather than by picking up sig nals transmitted through the air. This enables schools and other institutions to use television without endangering the open circuit or mass audience trans mission. Used In Cental Schools Another problem in the na tion's colleges and universities is the lack of large classrooms. For instance,, Kansas State Col lege has 6,500 students and only four classrooms with more than 100 seats. Besides solving the student in crease and the teacher shortage problems, the closed-circuit tele vision also offers opportunities to "increase the seating ca pacity" of the nation's schools. . Conference members agreed that the relief from the heavy and often repetitious teaching loads might be the principal fac tor in gaining wide-spread sup port for closed-circuit TV. The members predicted that the rising tide of students soon will force the skeptical educa tors to investigate television : as an educational aid. Besides the use in spreading education among the greatest number of students, television would give prospective teachers a better opportunity to observe good teaching techniques. The conference was told that 14 of the nation's 44 dental schools already have used closed circuit TV for instruction. 2- Texas, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin lead all of the states in the total numbers of their cattle. ... 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