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...years to win election to the state legislature; Georgia re-elected all ten of its Negro legislators. In Alabama's Lowndes County, black voters?who outnumber whites 55% to 45%?were less than enthusiastic about Stokely Carmichael's aggressive Black Panther ticket, which went down to defeat. Elsewhere in the state, several Negroes were elected, notably Macon County's Lucius Amerson, 32, a Korean War paratrooper and former postal clerk who became the South's only Negro sheriff. In Dallas County, Selma's public-safety director, Wilson Baker, who acted with memorable restraint during last year's voting-rights...
Pared Margins. Ronald Reagan will still be faced with Democratic majorities in Sacramento, but their margins were pared to a bare-and possibly friendlier-predominance in both houses. Even powerful Jesse Unruh, Democratic speaker of the lower house and longtime rival of defeated Pat Brown, appeared close to defeat for a time in his once-safe suburban Los Angeles district. Unruh's margin: 9,000 votes...
...German history. Ever since 1713, when Frederick William I forged the Prussian army into "a state within a state," the German military has looked harshly on labor. Army bayonets cut down the demonstrating workers in 1848; army rifle butts broke strikes in the years that followed. Even after the defeat of World War II, German officers retained their antilabor sentiment, labeled union organizing efforts "contradictory to the principle of command and obedience." In August, Christian Democratic Defense Minister Kai-Uwe von Hassel knuckled under to labor pressure and permitted the Public Service, Transport and Traffic Workers Union (Soldiers Section...
...last seven years, the U.S. Davis Cup team was beaten in preliminary interzone play, and was thereby eliminated from the challenge round against Australia. The previous losses, at least, were to Mexico, Italy (twice) and Spain-all of whom have solid credentials in international tennis. Last week's defeat came in Brazil, where sportswriters spent much of the week trying to explain to their readers just what the Davis Cup is. Only 3,000 fans (700 short of capacity) turned out to watch the matches at Porto Alegre's Leopoldina Juvenil Tennis Club. And most of them-like...
Less Palatable. To the relief of bankers and retailers, the so-called truth-in-lending and truth-in-packaging bills lost their champion in the defeat of Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas. The defeat of ten of the 24 Democrats on the House Agriculture Committee prompted American Farm Bureau President Charles Shuman to predict: "This should speed the day when the futile effort of the Government to manage and subsidize agriculture is ended...