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...most liberal towns. Home of the University of North Carolina, it was once called by Editor-Publisher Mark Ethridge "the capital of the Southern mind." Last week Chapel Hill chose Howard Nathaniel Lee, 34, a Negro, to be its next mayor-by 2,567 votes out of a record 4,734 cast. Lee is the eleventh black mayor in the South, but the first to be elected in a predominantly white Southern community. Said former Vice President Hubert Humphrey in a congratulatory telegram: "This is a new breakthrough in Southern politics...
...Khrushchev cult" -eventually resulted in his discharge from the army followed by his commitment to a mental hospital for 14 months as a schizophrenic. This is a favorite Soviet punishment for dissenting intellectuals, short of shipment to a labor camp. Since then, because of his age, disability and service record-he had risen from private to general in 34 years and was a distinguished division commander in World War II-the government has merely admonished him for his outspokenness. Anti-Soviet agitation, however, is a serious charge. The possible sentence: seven years at hard labor...
...World Series scandal that marked baseball's darkest hour; of cancer; in Detroit. In that tainted series, the American League's Chicago White Sox were heavy favorites over the National League's Cincinnati Reds, and Cicotte, with a 29-7 season's record, was a good bet to win at least two games. But gamblers offered Eddie and seven of his teammates several thousand dollars to throw the sport's most vaunted prize. "Black Sox," screamed the fans. "I did it for the wife and kiddies," Eddie pleaded, but baseball's tough new commissioner...
Financial leaders are particularly worried because the interest rates on Eurodollars have been rising with alarming speed. They jumped from 7% in December to a record 10% last week on three-month loans. Economic policymakers complain that the rise is leading to an unwanted worldwide increase in interest costs...
Dartmouth is the only undefeated team in the EIBL, and Yale trails the Indians and Cornell with a 4-2-1 record. In retrospect, Harvard could be a contestant for the league title if it weren't for two bad first innings. Two home runs in the first against Army and a seven-run explosion at Brown cost the Crimson the league race...