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...that Rockefeller was allowing any such thoughts to distract him from his hard-fought, late-starting drive. Through the week, he swept from New England to the Great Plains to Arkansas and Texas, bringing to 35 the number of states he has visited since he rejoined the race. He cracked jokes and lobster in Maine, clanged through the streets of Sioux City, Iowa, in a fireman's hat, was greeted on the green in New Haven, Conn., by Sybil, a seven-year-old elephant with a Rockefeller sticker on her trunk, and dropped in at the famous Humphrey drugstore...
...than 100 years to use one of them to impose a major new rule on the country. The court's concern was racial discrimination in housing-long one of the most emotional of civil rights issues. Only three months ago, housing was the target of a new and hard-fought civil rights law, but the court's decision made the lengthy congressional argument over that law seem largely academic. The long-ignored Civil Rights Act of 1866, said a majority of seven justices, already did the job; it is an unequivocal call for open housing. In blunt, unmistakable...
...overcome his opposition. Terrell, who was seeded third, scored a major upset in the semi-finals Sunday morning by downing second-seeded Peter Martin of McGill. Terrell took the first two games, but Martin came back in the next two, 15-12 and 18-14. The four games were hard-fought, and Martin was just too tired to keep up with Terrell's consistently strong play. The fifth and deciding game went to Terrell by a lopsided 15-2 score...
...sitting in the wings closely watching Rafferty's progress. They include Los Angeles' maverick Mayor Samuel Yorty, State Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh, and perhaps even former Governor Edmund Brown. Not one of them can match Rafferty's turgid prose style-but that, in a long, hard-fought campaign, may prove more of a virtue than a handicap...
...Subcommittee, Gaud pleaded mea culpa for AID's foulups. In defense of his agency, however, Gaud pointed out that in the seven years of its existence, Congress has never seen fit to put AID on a permanent basis, financing it from year to year on an ever-diminishing, hard-fought budget. AID is now operating on the slimmest yearly allowance ever ($1.9 billion). As a result, it has been unable to attract enough qualified personnel. In the wake of AID'S latest trouble, Congress may slash the agency's budget even more savagely than usual next month...