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Antiques Extant. The mayor's prestige was at stake in two congressional races. Seeking a ninth term aboard Daley's delegation to Washington, Rep resentative Barratt O'Hara - who at 84 is the oldest member of the House -was challenged by Abner Mikva, 40, a liberal with a distinguished ten-year rec ord in the state legislature. Though O'Hara rarely gets home to his problem-racked South Side constituency, the smooth-purring Democratic machine came to his rescue, helping him to win, 33,789 to 31,180. Said O'Hara, a Spanish-American...
Such a Mess. But events in Viet Nam may not give the U.S. that much time. Said Illinois Democrat Barratt O'Hara of Rusk's remarks: "I have never known him to speak with more gravity." Said Ohio Democrat Wayne Hays: "You hardly know where to start, it's such a mess. We don't want to go in full force, like the French. They failed. But a pull-out would be even worse. We need two things right now-some patience and a little bit of good news from out there...
...Democrats and 153 Republicans.* Or, depending on who is doing the counting, it is divided into 129 Easterners, 120 Southerners, 128 Midwesterners, 58 Westerners. Or it can be divided into 16 women and 419 men. Or 228 lawyers and 207 nonlawyers. Or 261 veterans (including Spanish-American War Corporal Barratt O'Hara, Chicago Democrat) and 174 nonveterans...
Died. Tom Barratt, 59, Scotland Yard's chief superintendent and senior detective, who hunted down some of Britain's most shuddery murderers (including John Christie, who killed at least seven women and buried them around the house); of lung cancer; in London...
Illinois. Republican Richard B. Vail of Chicago, another former member of the Un-American Activities Committee, was the only Congressman closely identified with anti-Communist activity to be defeated. The man who beat him: old (70), breast-beating Barratt O'Hara, who was the youngest lieutenant governor in Illinois history in 1913, who beat Vail in 1948 and lost...