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Florida. A native of Maine, Edward J. Gurney migrated to Florida in 1948, was later elected mayor of Winter Park, and, in 1962, a U.S. Representative. Now he becomes the first Republican since Reconstruction to be sent to the Senate from Florida. To defeat former Democratic Governor LeRoy Collins, Conservative Gurney ran on a record that includes votes against civil rights legislation, foreign aid, and that "expensive boondoggle," the war on poverty...
...premise that "women have been in the driver's seat" in black communities for too long. Negroes did not significantly increase their House holdings, but another who will be watched when he arrives in Washington is Cleveland Democrat Louis A. Stokes, 43, brother of that city's mayor...
...Statewide races are usually tests between Democratic Chicago and Republican downstate Illinois, but this year the G.O.P. had a contender who could hold his own in the city: Cook County Board President Richard Ogilvie, 45, who won his current position and a previous term as Cook County Sheriff in Mayor Daley's Democratic fiefdom. A World War II tank commander, whose facial injuries left him with a masklike expression, Ogilvie earned fame as a Mafia-busting U.S. special investigator, a fact that helped him win against the hard law-and-order line of Democratic Incumbent Governor Samuel Shapiro...
Immortality as a Flower. Everything went. Mrs. Alfonso J. Cervantes, wife of the St. Louis mayor, happily bid $750 for half a ton of bacon, explaining that she has six boys and a Mexican exchange student all living in her house. "I really don't know how much bacon 1,000 Ibs. is," she admitted. "But I do know that we use six or seven pounds a week." Costliest item was a new house, valued at $64,900 and sold for $55,000 to Chester Volkman, a contractor, who mused: "Maybe my daughter will want...
...buildings with huge parts preassembled in a factory instead of handcrafted at the site from myriad bits and pieces. That money-saving process increases the employment of industrial workers but reduces the need for highly paid (up to $7.30 an hour) building craftsmen at the site. When Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley started flexing his political muscles, however, the unions agreed not only to erect factory-fabricated units, which had long been excluded from Chicago, but to hire neighborhood residents (most of them Negroes) as apprentices on such work...