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...points ahead of Republican Rival H.L. Richardson. Traditionally Republican Arizona will probably elect Democrat Raul Castro as Governor and perhaps even a Democratic state senate. The Democratic sweep is likely to be blocked only in Alaska, where Governor William Egan is trailing Republican Challenger Jay Hammond, and Senator Mike Gravel shows only a slim lead over his Republican rival, C.R. Lewis, a state senator and member of the John Birch Society's advisory council...
...went to London and got some bricks from the Abbey Road wall," says Joel Glazier, a bearded, dogmatic fan from Delaware. He grins wildly as he describes his precious finds. "Besides the bricks, I went to each of The Beatles' homes and picked up gravel and sticks. Of course at Abbey Road, I had to take my shoes off and walk across like Paul. It was January, and God, it was cold." The gathered fans nod solemnly--spellbound and envious. "I went through the garbage cans at Apple. I found the bill from when John ordered cartons of Dr. Pepper...
Good News. Social problems are the most intense in Rock Springs, a huge trove of coal, oil, shale, potash, sand, gravel, clay and cement rock. Since 1971, about 5,000 workers have moved in to build the giant Jim Bridger Power Plant- and work in a newly discovered oilfield. Another wave of outsiders, lured by the expansion of trona mines, a source of widely used sodium compounds, and the reopening of old coal mines, is expected to increase the town's 26,000 population...
...fair share of territorial taxes. After agitating successfully for Alaska's statehood, he went to the Senate in 1959 where, five years later, only he and Wayne Morse voted against the Gulf of Tonkin resolution authorizing U.S. action in the Viet Nam War. Unseated in 1968 by Mike Gravel, Gruening at 81 retired to the Nation and continued stumping for liberal causes...
...Harvard students brought to trial for their participation in the 1969 takeover of University Hall. Flym's class on Constitutional Issues studies the decisions of the three-year old Burger Court, and the analysis of cases often devolves into heated discussions incorporating recent political controversy. A discussion of Gravel v. U.S., the Pentagon Papers case, includes a debate on that decision's bearing on Nixon's claims of executive privilege with regard to the Watergate tapes. A box of cookies is passed from row to row and two women in the third row are knitting. There is a steady flow...