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...Republicans if it were to lose some of the Democratic manufacturing towns along the district's northeast boundary. And the Second District, most vulnerable to realignment, has sent Republicans to Congress in six of the past ten elections, so there is a good chance that the G.O.P. would benefit from a change there...
...other hand, the Obscene Literature Control Commission may intend no benefit for community morality. To judge from all the facts of the Fanny Hill case and its immediate predecessor, Tropic of Cancer, the commission may be more concerned with the emaciated treasury of the Commonwealth. The voracious demand for both books immediately after the Commission announced its opinions has certainly not gone unnoticed at the nation's publishing houses. If these two threatened suppressions have been a test for a new revenue-raising scheme that might save Massachusetts yet from a higher income tax on the lottery, the test...
Away from the piano, her life is even richer. She is founder and proprietor of a foundation for the rehabilitation of down-and-out jazzmen, and she runs a Manhattan thrift shop for the foundation's benefit. Musicians who are doing well drop by with contributions nearly every day, and turning the merchandise into cash can sometimes tax even the devotion of Mary Lou. Only recently, Louis Armstrong's wife donated 100 pairs of size 41 shoes; the Duke donated a hand-painted pool stick and a mink...
Bush's switch stunned the Medical Research Council, which complained that after financing his work for years, "the benefit will be felt in the U.S." When such eminent scientists as the University of Bristol's Maurice Pryce, chief of the theoretical physics division at the government atomic energy center at Harwell, and Anthony Pople, head of the basic physics research at the Teddington National Laboratory, also said they were leaving for the U.S., the exodus touched off a political uproar...
Someone else wondered whether integration would really improve Negro education. Breeden thought both Negroes and whites would benefit: "There is more to education than the factual material learned or the skills acquired, and that 'more' has to do with being involved in the main stream of society...