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...Reconstruction, the twelve-county Third District in southwest Mississippi is roughly 55% white; registered Negro voters, moreover, are outnumbered by about 125,000 to 70,000 at the polls. Since none of the candidates gained a majority in last week's election, Evers and the runner-up, Charles Griffin, 41, a longtime congressional aide to John Bell Williams, who picked up 28,806 votes, will face each other in a March 12 runoff...
Between the abundant yuks and cackles squirms the sadistic little tale of Mortimer Lucas Griffin, an all-Canadian boy in London who has the misfortune to be born white, Anglo-Saxon and Protestant in a time when the values of disaffected minorities are on the upswing. Cocksure's premise is that the special pleadings of minority groups-Jews, Negroes, artists, homosexuals-are funny. So Richler finds humor in the way Jacob Shalinsky, messianic editor of an obscure journal called Jewish Thought, hounds Mortimer with the wily accusation that he is really a secret Jew. And he finds rich irony...
HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Jimmy Durante plays host to Hostman Merv Griffin. Other guests are Ethel Merman and The Grassroots...
...Clyde Griffin, teacher of History at Vassar, said "I'm sorry. In my personal opinion, though, the majority of the faculty and alumnae are glad...
...Griffin said that he had sensed what the decision would be before it was announced. "The announcement came as a surprise only because I wasn't told of it before hand," he said...