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Following the September 27 party county conventions, liberals will probably control about forty per cent of the party apparatus--a significant gain over a year ago--and have an excellent possibility of winning a majority in 1970 under the progressive leadership of the Udall brothers--Cong. Morris and retiring Interior Secretary Stewart...
...take over the party and remake it to their own specifications. New Hampshire's David Hoeh, New York's Al Lowenstein, Georgia's Julian Bond and Wisconsin's Donald Peterson, who talked himself hoarse making McCarthyite motions at the convention, are hoping eventually to gain control of the party machinery through the New Democratic Coalition, headquartered in Minneapolis...
When tested later, the designated late bloomers showed an average IQ gain of 12.22 points, while the rest of the student body gained 8.42 points. The gains were most dramatic in the lowest grades. First-graders whose teachers expected them to advance intellectually jumped 27.4 points, second-graders 16.5 points. There were similar gains in reading ability. One young Mexican American, who had been classified as mentally retarded with an IQ of 61, scored 106 after his selection as a late bloomer...
...Negro guerrillas in Seattle and Peoria, Ill., and lesser sniping skirmishes have been reported in a dozen other cities. But this has apparently been the work of a handful of fanatics, and they have failed to rally much of a following. While the extremists speak loudly, and often gain the headlines, they do not come near to representing the peaceful and constructive majority of the rapidly changing American Negro community...
...last week rolled and scrambled to a sudden-death triumph over Oklahoman Labron Harris in the $100,000 Philadelphia Golf Classic. Murph the Girth shot a twelve-under-par 276 for 72 holes, then rammed home a 15-ft. birdie putt on the third play-off hole to gain his first professional victory and the $20,000 winner's check. The previous week he led the $250,000 Westchester Classic after three rounds, only to lose to Boros on the final hole. That time Murph picked up a check for $20,416. Total earnings to date...