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...Democrats on the defensive over the social issue. Yet the same advisers admit that it is difficult to single out elections where this attack proved crucial. Two Senate victories that the Republicans picked up almost casually ?Glenn Beall's in Maryland and Lowell Weicker's in Connecticut???turned on other factors. Weicker ran against two opponents, Democratic Incumbent Thomas Dodd. who campaigned as an independent after failing to win renomination. and Joseph Duffey, an antiwar liberal who had gained the party's designation. Beall unseated Joseph Tydings, whom LIFE accused last summer of having less-than-strict ethical standards...
...store was not "a branch shop with samples, but a complete Fifth Avenue store." Patrons were invited to extend their charge accounts from the Manhattan store, were promised the same service, the same fashions as in town. Opening its arms to 500,000 residents of Westchester County & Connecticut???''If half a million people should jump into motors, within 40 minutes or less they'd all be at Franklin Simon's new Greenwich store"?the company made much of a free parking space for 250 automobiles in back of the building...
...have clear and definite legislation essentially similar to the Federal statutes. Twenty-five other States have more ambiguous laws relating to "obscene, vulgar and indecent" objects or written matter of "immoral purpose." Four States?Georgia, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina? have no legislation on birth control. One State?Connecticut???goes the limit, no exceptions, even to prohibiting the use of any "drug, medicinal article or instrument for the purpose of preventing conception...
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