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...states. The G.O.P. also commands 31 statehouses, more than at any time since 1953; the total includes every major state except Texas. At lower levels, the party also made some inroads. In 1966, the Republicans elected 557 new state legislators, although this year they made a net gain of only 36 more. At the county level, the Republicans won more than 700 new seats in 1966. This year they added more than 500 county offices, from sheriff to recorder of deeds, swelling the total to more than 1,200 seats gained since the Goldwater debacle of four years...
...visitors provided a welcome change in agenda from the showdown involving his leadership that seemed inevitable three months ago. His challenger was Mieczyslaw Moczar, chief of Poland's secret police and head of its influential partisans' organization, who had exploited several areas of Polish dissatisfaction to gain impressive leverage for himself. Chief among these issues was the Kremlin's overbearing influence, which has kept the economy geared to heavy industry and Russian-bound exports at a time when Poles, like other Soviet-bloc countries, were demanding consumer goods. Moczar also exploited Poland's latent antiSemitism...
...Farneti is serious and his explanation is plausible. "I'm a sophomore and every one of these last eight games has been a miracle. This is the same situation we've been in all year," he explains. "We're the underdog and have everything to gain and nothing to lose...
...radicals who wish to commit institutional suicide are disappointed because they have had to spend this year convincing the rest of the HUC to follow their proposals. They would rather have organized the student body into power blocs to gain what they desire from the Faculty...
WHEN the 91st Congress convenes, it will seem like old home week in the House. In one of the most extraordinary elections on record, Americans voted with only a handful of exceptions to return incumbents to Washington. Far from making the net gain of 30 seats that they needed to control the House, the Republicans had gained only four, with a few races still undecided. The most likely party lineup was 245 Democrats and 187 Republicans?almost the same as that of the 90th Congress...