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In 1959, after he had lost the interest of Dwight Eisenhower's White House staff by refusing to play presidential ball as a messenger boy, Martin was beaten for the G.O.P. House leadership by a calculated House coup, plotted by young Republicans who preferred Indiana's Charles Halleck. In 1966, Wellesley's Margaret Heckler defeated him in a G.O.P. primary for his House seat. Bitter and bewildered, the perennial bachelor retired, with his box-toed shoes, his collection of 164 miniature elephants and his Yankee pride, to the obscurity of North Attleboro from which he had arisen. To the last, he maintained: "What's good for one section is pretty much good for the country."