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...remarkable vote getter. Since 1959, he has represented Manhattan's so-called "silk stocking" district; it includes Park Avenue, Fifth Avenue and Sutton Place, but it also embraces the seamier realms of Green wich Village and the East Side. In his first election he won by only 7,800 votes. He has vastly increased that margin every time since, and in 1964 he had an 81,000-vote plurality...
...through. Republicans are on the rise in the state; Goldwater won South Carolina by 93,000 votes-in 1964. Senator Strom Thurmond, a Dixiecrat who turned Republican last year, will be running in a separate race at the same time and, as the state's best vote-getter, will undoubtedly attract support for the entire G.O.P. state ticket...
...comrades in rah-team dialogue to risk their necks for art: "It's our national heritage-the glory of France!" To make Lancaster's accent less obtrusive, the voices of Michel Simon and other French conspirators are poorly dubbed into working-class Americanese. Scofield, a gaunt attention-getter in accented English, lends his conventional role some force. Jeanne Moreau, as the hardheaded innkeeper who helps Lancaster to relax between trains, has little to do and does it deftly...
...point-getter for B.U. is certain to be Jeff Blatt. Blatt won the 50-yard dash against Brown in a good time of 0:05.6 and cleared 12 ft., 6 In. to take second place in the pole vault. If Aggrey Awori runs against him. Blatt will have to settle for second place in the dash, but the B.U. ace should win the vault against Ken Winters, who seems to be stuck around the 12-ft. mark...
...splitting, and last week vote canvassers, finally finishing the count, announced that all 118 Democratic candidates had won in their party's landslide. Leading the Democratic ticket with 2,361,623 votes was Adlai Stevenson III, 34, Chicago lawyer and son of U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson. Biggest vote getter, with 2,191,065, among the 59 elected Republicans: Earl Eisenhower, 66, one of Ike's brothers and a retired La Grange Park newspaper executive...