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Looking to '70. Several incumbents seemed unassailable. Hawaii's Daniel K. Inouye, a Johnson-lining Democrat, swept up 85% of the vote against Wayne Thiessen, a conservative Republican. Almost equally decisive were the victories of the Southern Democratic veterans? Georgia's Herman Talmadge, North Carolina's Sam Ervin and South Carolina's Ernest Hollings. Among the staunchest Democratic liberals, Connecticut's Abe Ribicoff won comfortably, while Birch Bayh overcame the Nixon trend in Indiana. Humphrey's New York victory did not faze Republican Jacob Javits, whose plurality exceeded 1,000,000. Among the easily elected conservative Republicans were Illinois' Everett...
Strongly for Wallace, Georgia proved staunchly conservative again this year, even denying liberal Rep. Charles L. Weltner in his bid to regain his Atlanta congressional seat. Herman E. Talmadge, son of the Georgia demagogue, easily won election for a third term...
Four Democratic incumbents-Herman Talmadge of Georgia, Hawaii's Daniel Inouye, North Carolina's Sam Ervin and Ernest Hollings of South Carolina-Seem virtually assured of reelection. Democrat James Allen, a conservative Southerner, is a cinch to win the seat of Alabama's retiring Lister Hill. Five Republicans-Illinois' Everett Dirksen, New Hampshire's Norris Cotton, New York's Jacob Javits, Utah's Wallace Bennett and Vermont's George Aiken-are likewise rated as shoo...
Bananas or Banannas. From the viewpoint of the ordinary reader, Wilson certainly has a point. The M.L.A. editions are crammed with niggling notes on whether Herman Melville used the spelling "bananas" or "banannas" and whether Howells wrote "wrapt" or "wrapped." In an earlier review of the M.L.A. edition of The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Harvard University), Cultural Critic Lewis Mumford found the text so cut up by the "barbed wire" of notations and arcane diacritical symbols that it was virtually unreadable...
Atkins took issue with Alsop regarding the New York City school decentralization crisis. Alsop condemned the high position in the New York black community given to convicted murder Herman A. Ferguson, while Atkins asserted that "Ferguson's criminal record is irrelevant; the issue is decentralization...