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Oregon's race for a U.S. Senate seat is the nation's only major contest in which the central issue is the Viet Nam war. The campaign-like the conflict itself-has seesawed to and fro. Last week handsome, two-term Republican Governor Mark O. Hatfield, 44, who has expressed grave misgivings about the Administration's conduct of the war, and Democratic Representative Robert Duncan, 45, a snuff-dipping ex-seaman who stands foursquare in favor of the President's policies, were running almost dead even. A check by Pollster John Kraft showed Duncan with...
...Labor Department estimated San Francisco's unemployment rate at five per cent. The August rate for the national civilian labor force was three and nine-tenths per cent. The jobless rate fro Negro males in the San Francisco area is triple the white rate...
Meantime, Sculptor Frazier was using vacuum cleaners to inflate his 50-ft.-tall "soft skyscraper," attended by scores of shoving children. "The fun is in the struggle," exhorted Art Critic Harold Rosenberg as the plastic building listed flaccidly to and fro and finally stood erect. With that, Frazier let it topple over on the beach, where, with cries of "Kill it!", the children ripped it to shreds in a scene right out of Lord of the Flies...
More to Come. The political cost could come high. Maintaining the nononsense, "quasi-judicial" approach he adopted during the first week of hearings, Mississippi Democrat John Stennis, the committee chairman, put searching questions to Dodd and showed little sympathy for his legalistic to-ings and fro-ings, which included an attempt to have Utah Republican Wallace Bennett, the committee's vice chairman, disqualified from further participation in the hearings on grounds that he had prejudged the case...
...budget for the program has grown from $3-4000 in '64-'65 to a projected $12,000 fro next year. The $4000 grant has been supplemented with another $2000 from small donations, but $6000 still must be found for the Towers program alone...