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...1n 1755, according to colonial practice, any man could become an officer who recruited enough soldiers to serve under him. When New Hampshire asked for men to protect the interior, 23-year-old Farmer Rogers presented himself with 50 volunteers and was made a captain...
...1n New Jersey, former Representative Clifford Philip Case resigned as the $40,000-a-year president of the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Republic to file for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate. Case, who built a good record during his five terms in the House and was a key man in the Eisenhower preinauguration organization in 1952, stands a good chance of unseating ineffective Senator Robert Hendrickson in the G.O.P. primary...
...1n Philadelphia, the split in the Democratic organizations all but ruined the Democrats' good chance to win the governorship of Pennsylvania. Because he could not get a solid endorsement from the squabbling party organization at home, Philadelphia's District Attorney Richardson Dilworth has declined to run for governor. That practically assures the election of Republican Lloyd H. Wood, a lawyer and turkey farmer now serving as lieutenant governor...
...1n South Carolina, Governor James Francis Byrnes, 74, who has spent 44 years in public offices ranging from court reporter to U.S. Secretary of State, announced that he is withdrawing from politics. Byrnes, who cannot succeed himself as governor, asked Democrats in his home county (Spartanburg) not to elect him as a delegate to the state convention this month...
...1n one school, "a teacher recently stopped a fight between two students. Later that day, he found his new car ... scratched and marked up by one of the boys. He reported the matter to the principal, but was told, he said, that since the incident occurred outside the school, it was beyond the school's jurisdiction. Last year a student roughed up a male teacher without being disciplined. Another student struck a woman teacher...