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...Senate seats up for election on Nov. 4, 19 are now held by Republicans, 14 by Democrats. Of the Democratic seats, these eleven seem safe: Florida, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Washington (Democrat Edmund Muskie unseated Republican Senator Fred Payne in Maine's September election). But Republican incumbents are breathing fairly easy only in four states: Delaware, Nebraska, North Dakota and Ohio. The tough Senate scraps...
...first time in twelve years, nice but lackluster Republican Incumbent J. Glenn Beall, 64, is hard pressed. Beall has the support of Baltimore's powerful Sun newspapers, has a quiet person-to-person effectiveness among Maryland's Baltimore-suspicious rural voters. His Democratic opponent, Baltimore's eleven-year Mayor Tommy D'Alesandro, 55, has weathered scandal and long odds to win every one of his 23 campaigns in 32 years of professional politics, has strong city strength and is hanging on the coattails of popular Democratic candidate for Governor Millard Tawes to pull up his back...
General Ayub Khan, who got himself titled Premier last week, also announced a mixed bag of measures, in the name of curing eleven years of impotent democracy: 1) the legal system, based on the British code, must be drastically improved to give the people "quicker justice"; 2) birth control must be introduced because Pakistanis are "breeding too fast"; 3) Pakistan must prepare itself for austerity in order to regain a sound economy...
Last Saturday's inspired defensive performance against the tough Dartmouth eleven lowered the varsity's average to only 192.7 yards allowed per game. The Crimson also ranks first in rushing defense, having held its three opponents to an average of 122.3 yards per contest, and stands third in pass defense, with a mark of 70.3 yards per game...
Shortly after the market closed, the Federal Reserve Board raised margin requirements from 70% to 90% (buyers must put up 90% cash on their stock purchases), the highest requirement in eleven years. The Fed said it was alarmed by the rise in public borrowing to buy securities (which reached a record $4.3 billion in September), wanted to protect the public from getting in too deep. Actually, the public, i.e., small investors, has been getting out of the market since June...