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...Rhode Island has elected only Democrats to Congress since 1940 and, in proportion to its size, gave John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson the biggest majorities of any state. Yet in a special election last week to fill a vacant seat in the Second Congressional District, the Republicans came within a gnat's eyelash of winning...
Though a recount was under way this week, Democrat Robert Tiernan had apparently held the district for his party. But his plurality at week's end was so slight-410 votes out of 113,500 cast-that defeated Republican James DiPrete Jr. (rhymes with street) and his supporters sounded more jubilant than the winners. And with reason...
...court order, signed by District Judges Frank M. Johnson Jr. and H. H. Grooms and Judge Richard T. Rives of the Circuit Court of Appeals, came in response to a suit initiated last November by the N.A.A.C.P. It charged that Alabama's Governor and the state board of education were willfully evading the Supreme Court's 1954 school-desegregation rulings. The Montgomery court in effect goes beyond the Supreme Court guideline that integration should proceed with "all deliberate speed," which had provided a convenient loophole for the state to delay compliance with the law. So far, substantive integration...
Just back from a vacation, Chicago's U.S. District Judge Joseph Sam Perry dealt quickly with a couple of routine items on his docket one morning last week. Then he turned to major business: Case No. 63-C-1426, that of Lloyd Eldon Miller Jr. Last month the Supreme Court reversed the 1956 conviction of Cab Driver Miller for the rape-murder of an eight-year-old girl near the Fulton County city of Canton, Ill. It was up to Judge Perry to answer the next question: Did the state have any basis for keeping Miller in custody...
...that has gripped the imagination of teen-agers most is LSD. Says San Mateo, Calif., High School Superintendent Leon Lessinger: "The issue is LSD. Sooner or later you confront it." Lessinger himself was so shocked when he discovered at least 20 hard LSD users in his own affluent school district that he went out and raised $21,000 to finance an antiacid color documentary, now in the works, called LSD 25. Lessinger got his second shock when Film Maker David Parker asked the high school students whom they would trust as the narrator, got the reply, "Nobody...