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...that and more if he is to deal successfully with Chicago's problems over the next four years. More important for the machine, he must also arrange for an orderly transfer of power to a successor. He is now 72, and this campaign was almost certainly his last hurrah...
...affection, joins the troop to be near her-alas, just as Marie's mother, a marquise, shows up, claims her and takes her away to teach her how to curtsy instead of salute. At the end, the lovers are reunited and everyone joins in a rejoicing chorus: "Hurrah for France...
...pedals his star-spangled bicycle backward. The object is to give Maddox a second term as Governor, a post he held from 1967 to 1971. Prohibited by state law from succeeding himself, Maddox has been biding his time as Lieutenant Governor while waging the campaign he calls his "last hurrah." Last week that effort suffered a setback that may be fatal; Maddox failed to win enough votes to avoid a runoff in the Democratic primary...
...Last Hurrah. The surprising strength of Trudeau's Liberal Party gave his government a comfortable 141 seats of 264 in the House of Commons. Trudeau's majority can now govern without relying on the support of one of Canada's splinter parties. The Conservatives lost twelve seats, ending up with 95, and the tiny, right-wing Social Credit Party dropped from 15 to eleven...
...N.D.P. pitilessly for having brought down the government two months ago by failing to support the Trudeau budget, thus provoking the election. For its blunder, the party lost nearly half its parliamentary seats, falling from 31 to 16, while David Lewis, its leader, was given an ignominious last hurrah by Toronto Freelance Writer Ursula Appolloni, making her first race. Good humoredly, Lewis bade farewell: "One of the basic democratic rights is the right for the people to be wrong...