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...margin over the combined totals of Democratic-Liberal Eleanor Clark French and the Conservative Party's Kieran O'Doherty. By bagging the biggest G.O.P. victory in New York, Lindsay became a voice to be listened to on the national scene. Democrat Adam Clayton Powell, the nation's worst Congressman according to a poll of Washington correspondents, easily clobbered three Harlem opponents. Westchester County, Manhattan's wealthy suburban bedroom, elected a Democratic Congressman for the first time in more than half a century; he is Richard L. Ottinger, former Peace Corps assistant director, who beat the lackluster...
Called the Eliot House Forum on the Developing Nations, the series will be launched Wednesday night when Don Humphrey, William Clayton Professor of International Economic Affairs at the Fletcher School, lectures on "Requirements for Economic Growth...
...Harmon Clayton Killebrew, 28, is 6 ft. tall, weighs a meaty 213 lbs., and keeps very quiet about the whole thing. He won the American League home-run crown with 48 in 1962, did it again last year with 45. But that was nothing. The righthanded slugger already has 39 this summer, is swinging at a pace that could set a new major league record...
There is a lot of honey in the HARYOU-ACT pot, though, and the politicians are already buzzing around it like bumblebees. Buzzing loudest is Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, who threatens to hamstring the venture unless he is given veto power over the choice of its executive director. The issue remains to be settled, but even if the program is not pork-barreled dry, it will be a long time in producing tangible results...
Where, for example, were Harlem's leaders last week? Its hero, its Congressman, and pastor of its huge, 10,000-member Abyssinian Baptist Church, Adam Clayton Powell, was in Switzerland and Washington, but not Harlem. "There's one good thing about Adam Clayton Powell," says one Negro. "He seems to make the Caucasians very angry." Harlem's only city councilman, J. Raymond Jones, was fresh back from his Virgin Islands retreat, but he saw no reason to comment on the situation...