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...Hampshire's former Republican Attorney General Maurice ("Mo") Murphy Jr., 34. Appointed by Governor Wesley Powell, Murphy will almost certainly contest Mrs. Bridges in the September Republican primary. Another announced candidate is middle-roading Representative Perkins Bass, a quiet fellow who has been nicknamed "Little Mouth" to distinguish him from Tennessee's noisy Democratic Representative Ross ("Big Mouth") Bass...
...Johannesburg the Chinese were slipping in on Japanese coattails, at least at the swimming pools. "It would be extremely difficult for our gatekeepers to distinguish between Chinese and Japanese," admitted the chairman of the city council's Health and Amenities Committee. But as for the broader question of Chinese color status. Verwoerd's government was making no promises. It all recalled Hermann Göring's retort in 1934 when told that a favorite Munich art dealer was a non-Aryan: "I shall decide who is a Jew around here...
...France, the judge may retire with the jury. In Britain not long ago, a man grew marijuana from birdseed. Cocaine was known during the Stone Age. High treason was so called to distinguish it from petty treason, i.e., a wife killing her husband...
...traditional charges of incompetence and improper influence which beset the Federal Aviation Agency have taken a very unpleasant twist in the last few months. The FAA has apparently lost the ability to distinguish between its regulatory responsibilities and its tasks as administrator of the District of Columbia's airports...
...were recorded by seismographs near Tokyo, 6,000 miles away. Uppsala, Sweden (5,200 miles), Sodankyla, Finland (5,000 miles), and Fairbanks, Alaska (3,000 miles) also detected the explosion, and all the stations recorded the "first motion," the outward push that is characteristic of bomb waves and can distinguish them from natural earthquake waves...