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...news that the President would not campaign came as a stitch in time to some candidates, such as Tennessee's Governor Frank Clement, who faced a close senatorial race with Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen's son-in-law, Republican Howard Baker. But most were disappointed. Whatever the degree of Johnson's popularity, a presidential visit usually helps swell the vote -and Democrats, who outnumber Republicans among the nation's 116 million eligible voters by a 2-to-1 margin, figured they would be hurt by a small turnout...
...TENNESSEE 89% of the vote GOVERNOR Ellington (D) (unopposed) U.S. SENATOR Baker (R) 449,000 Clement (D) 361,000 U.S. House (9): +1 Republican...
...critics expect Picasso to be a significant playwright. More disturbingly, some critics feel that Picasso in his later decades is painting mainly to amuse himself. Clement Greenberg in this month's Art forum judged that since Picasso's famous Guernica, the brutal 1937 mural depicting the aerial bombardment of civilians during the Spanish Civil War, "Picasso's art has ceased being indispensable." London's Sunday Times Art Critic John Russell acknowledges that Picasso is still "the perpetual president of modern art," then adds: "This indisputably great artist has sacrificed too much in recent years to immediacy...
...after six years of stringent economic controls under the Labor government of Clement Attlee, the Conservatives swept into power on a variant of an Old Testament exhortation: "Set the people free." Last week, as the Conservative Party met for its 84th annual convention in the seaside resort of Blackpool, the old slogan echoed again...
...staunchest advo cates of racial harmony. Eighteen years ago in London, Seretse cast away his paramount chieftainship of the powerful Bamangwato tribe to marry a blonde English clerk named Ruth Williams. The marriage embarrassed both Seretse's despotic uncle, Tribal Regent Tshekedi Khama, and the Labor government of Clement Attlee, which hustled Seretse into an exile that lasted eight years...