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With a toughness seldom displayed while in office, he called members of his former Cabinet together on the blue Monday morning after elections, impressed on them that he would nip in the bud any impending challenge to his leadership of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition. In his clipped and cocky manner, Home told them, as he told the British people on TV: "I'm leading the Conservative Party-and I mean to go on doing so as long as I am useful in that position." He then proceeded to reshuffle his Shadow Cabinet-the "leader's committee...
...seven playing strings, 19 "sympathetic" resonating strings, so sensitive that they must be retuned while being played, and two bulbous gourds at either end for sound boxes. Shankar's sitar artistry has influenced such jazz innovators as Pianist Dave Brubeck and Saxophonists John Coltrane and Bud Shank. At the end of his U.S. tour, Shankar will begin a six- week course in Indian music at U.C.L.A.; local jazzmen are standing in line to enroll. The basis of Indian music is a melodic form called a raga, a series of notes on which the musician improvises. There are thousands...
...candidates for Congress, governorships and state legislatures. Only ticket splitting of incredible proportions saved moderate Repub licans such as Governor George Romney of Michigan and Governor-elect Daniel Evans of Washington from defeat; despite considerable splitting, New York's Ken Keating, Illinois' Chuck Percy, Oklahoma's Bud Wilkinson went down. In the Senate, Democrats were assured of retaining their lopsided ma- jority of 66 to 34. or even of increasing it. Thanks to Lyndon's sturdy coattails. Democratic gubernatorial candidates won in Indiana and West Virginia...
...REPUBLICANS Paul Fannin George Murphy John Lodae John Williams Claude Kirk Hiram Fong D.Russell Bontrager Clifford Mclntire J. Glenn Beall Howard Whitmore Jr. Mrs. Elly Peterson Wheelock Whitney No candidate Jean Bradshaw Alex Blewett Roman Hruska *Paul Laxalt Bernard Shanley Edwin Mechem Kenneth Keating Tom Kleppe Robert Taft Jr. Bud Wilkinson *Hugh Scott Ronald Lagueux Dan Kuykendall Howard Baker Jr. George Bush Ernest Wilkinson Winston Prouty Richard May Lloyd Andrews Cooper Benedict Wilbur Renk John Wold * Leading, but final results still in doubt...
...Fred Harris was less of a name than Bud Wilkinson, the former Oklahoma University coach. But Democrat Harris, 33, had "my friend" Lyndon Johnson's 100,000-vote margin blocking for him downfield. And that, plus a good record as a state senator, was enough to stop Republican Wilkinson. Harris won with a margin of 14,000 of the state's 900,000 senatorial votes, will complete the last two years of the term of the late U.S. Senator Robert Kerr...