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Those voters who did mark their ballots returned to power Premier Aldo Moro's five-year-old Center-Left coalition with an increased majority of 51 in the 630-seat Chamber of Deputies. The Christian Democrats gained six new seats from extreme right-wing parties, and the Republicans, the smallest partner in the ruling coalition, went from five seats to nine...
...doors of the House Ways and Means Committee flew open, and a dozen Senators and Representatives shouldered their way through the newsmen outside. None of them would say what had transpired. That was up to the potentate whose name Mr. Mills is affixed in gold block lettering on the chamber's entrance...
...locally oriented. "I would rather miss the big national story," says Beacon Journal Publisher and Executive Editor Ben Maidenburg. "The reader is going to get that on TV or the New York Times or the newsmagazines. I would rather get that Rotary Club meeting or the Junior Chamber of Commerce story instead." That fits in with Knight's thinking. "It is our obligation to print a lot of local news," he says. "We do very well at it; sometimes, I must confess, to the point where I feel it is boring." To report this news, the papers hire youngsters...
...concert of Mozart concertos and chamber music will be performed by an orchestra of eighteenth-century proportions directed by John Harbisou '59 at 8:30 p.m. Saturday in Sanders Theatre. Admission is free...
...success of the conversion program has also given the city a psychological lift. "We had a real lack of confidence in our ability to merchandise our town," says the Chamber of Commerce's Greeley. "This gave us a kick in the pants when we needed it the most." Indeed, Springfield is so kicked up about the success of its program that it has undertaken to raise another $650,000 to buy as a tourist attraction a collection of 11,000 small arms that is said to be the world's biggest and best and is being eyed...