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...provide you with the latest reports of election results, the CRIMSON will go to press at 4:30 a.m. tomorrow. The CRIMSON will run a state-by-state breakdown of the results of the Presidential and Congressional races tomorrow...
...least dangerous breakdown in public services was the most serious. For the third time since September, the majority of the city's 58,000 teachers defied state law to go out on strike, and more than a million students were denied the vital right of education. Teachers marched outside their schools, and children watched as picketers traded insults and obscenities with nonstrikers and parents. With picket lines drawn in front of the schools where many people vote, there was fear that even the election might be disrupted...
...right there in the last two volumes of Gibbon. All this opulence and comfort have led to sophistry. We're now hopelessly confused between privileges and rights. Nobody feels an obligation to the city any more. The only obligation is to one's family. The breakdown in society comes when people can't recognize any public obligations beyond their family." The electric excitement of New York-which no other city in the country can match or even approach-is still there. By comparison, almost everyplace else is Oshkosh...
...York's current troubles, said Lindsay, do not reflect just a breakdown in labor and race relations. "It's a transition from the old to the new. The school dispute is not just a labor dispute. It has to do with social change." But some groups and individuals are unable to face the change, and react with violence. "These are the tempers of the time. They killed Martin Luther King with bullets. They killed Robert Kennedy with bullets. They'll kill more of the other moderates before they're through...
...seats are to be filled this year, including the one that belongs to Louisiana Democrat Russell Long, who is unopposed. A week before Election Day, the outlook is for a G.O.P. gain of anywhere from two to nine seats. That would leave the Senate with a breakdown ranging from 54 Democrats and 46 Republicans to 61 Democrats and 39 Republicans...