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...running gag in Maryland throughout the presidential campaign had it that if Hubert Humphrey won the election, local Democrats would immediately demand a recount. For the Democrats were well aware that when the Republican Party won the White House, it lost the statehouse. When Vice President-elect Spiro Agnew resigns his governorship some time after the Electoral College makes his election official on Dec. 16, Maryland's general assembly is certain to choose a Democrat to succeed him for the remaining two years of his four-year term...
...year-old Portland Attorney Robert W. Packwood had dislodged Democrat Wayne Morse, 68, from the Senate seat that he has occupied for 24 years. At week's end, Packwood held a thin 3,554 margin over Morse out of 814,418 votes cast. Morse will demand a recount. Unless it reverses the verdict, however, the brilliantly erratic Democrat-and onetime Republican-will retire to raise cattle on his Willamette Valley farm...
...Coop will also check the figures, Coop President Milton P. Brown, Lincoln Filene Professor of Retailing, said last night, but he added that he had not had time yesterday to arrange for a recount. "We'll check them when we get around to them," he said...
Archibald Cox likes to recount a tale of the evening he spent at dinner with a group of radical students and how, after a while, they had forgotten he was there and talked of their plans and their politics in front of him. He and his panel worked hard and their report is valuable in that a respectable body of men who can certainly not be considered radical, after a thorough and careful examination, ended up placing the blame for student discontent and student activism on administrators and faculty members. Their goals, as expressed in the report's conclusions...
...sound and movement on his stage to the audience watching the play. What counts here is not fidelity to convention, but rightness, and the Summer Players are, to my mind, right 99 per cent of the time. When Demetrius (Vincent Canzoneri) tossed "And, by the way, let us recount our dreams" to the audience upon exiting, an audible explosion of surprised laughter and applause arose as we realized we'd never known the line could be read like that and, of course, it's the right way to read the line. It happens a hundred and fifty times...