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Walter J. Sullivan and Edwad A. Crane '35, became the first two City Council candidates to reach quota as the first unofficial count was completed late yesterday. Sullivan had 5,119 first place votes and Crane 3,529, both over the unofficial quota of about 3,330 votes...
...City. Plagued by an ever-growing (up 400,000 since World War II), ever-moving population, Rome's traffic planners route fleets of Fiats and thundering herds of motor scooters through narrow alleys designed for carriages and litters. Whole areas of Rome have become all but impossible to reach by car; so congested is the area around the Pantheon that many cab drivers flatly refuse to take passengers there...
...work, filled the air with machine gun and 40-mm. antiaircraft fire. The wild evening of gunplay killed two Cubans and wounded 48. After that, in frenzied need of a scapegoat, he inevitably launched a TV tirade against the U.S., charging that Havana had been bombed. He had to reach back in history to find a match for the infamy: "This is our Pearl Harbor...
...Moscow last spring, the Nixon-tour reporters learned to their dismay that Russia's limited communications system could not handle the emergency load. Cable copy took ten hours or more to reach the U.S. To avoid such delays, the wire services and the big morning papers tied up overseas telephone lines, spent frustrating hours dictating their stories over circuits that were not only in painfully short supply but regularly went dead in the middle of transmissions...
Rainbow's Reach. Color in daily journalism is not new. The Milwaukee Journal first used run-of-press color in 1891. But such color remained a prohibitively expensive rarity until after World War II, when technical improvements in the process brought costs down to a level that newspapers-and newspaper advertisers-could afford...