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After 49 years in Congress, Senate President pro Tempore Carl Hayden, 83, now stands third in line of succession to the White House (after Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn). Last week the Arizona Democrat won an even more impressive title: first lady-pleaser of the land. Hayden's credentials, as proclaimed by a bouquet-bearing delegation from the League of Women Voters: he is the only incumbent Congressman to have voted for the 19th Amendment, which ushered in female suffrage...
Fertile Ground. Founded in 1957 by Los Angeles Plungers Jim and Sam, who discovered that they could stop their gambling by talking about their past experiences, G.A. has only one requirement for membership: a desire to stop gambling. The society defines the compulsive gambler as one who would affirmatively answer 7 of 20 basic questions. Examples: "Does gambling make you careless of the welfare of your family?" "Do you ever gamble to get money to pay debts?" "After a win, do you have a strong urge to return and win more?" "Does gambling cause you to have difficulty sleeping...
...gaining a monopoly in Portland, Sam Newhouse has eased another name from a dwindling list of cities with daily newspaper competition. New score: 60 competitive cities, 1,401 noncompetitive...
...argues balding Sam Rosenfeld, 40, veteran chemistry teacher at Hewlett (N.Y.) High School. This week he published a 188-page blueprint titled 30 Days To A Higher I.Q. For Your Child (Crown; $2.95), which consists of more than 700 problems and puzzles in the pattern of I.Q. tests. They will not make him brighter. But because "a poor showing on an I.Q. test can ruin your child's educational progress-perhaps forever," says Rosenfeld. "it is proper, even urgent that all children be taught how to take these tests...
...their own, though the strike has been going on for 21 months. The Journal has been hurt more than the Oregonian. A strikers' paper called the Reporter has graduated from a weekly to a daily, now claims 54,292 circulation. As the strike continued and the Journal weakened, Sam Newhouse patiently bided his time. Journal circulation fell...