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...statehouse for the Democrats. A prostatehood candidate won office in Puerto Rico. A generally youthful group of G.O.P. hopefuls scored impressive wins in Delaware, Illinois and Vermont. The Republicans also re-elected their popular chief executive in Indiana, and returned to office for the third straight two-year stint Archconservative Meldrim Thomson of New Hampshire on his single plank -no taxes. Democratic incumbents were re-elected in Arkansas, Montana and North Dakota, while new candidates won in Missouri, Rhode Island, Utah, Washington and West Virginia. A fresh face also won in North Carolina, where James Hunt, a New South Democrat...
...Kong story were taken by John Bryson, former assistant picture editor of LIFE magazine, who was on the set for much of the last year. Richard Schickel, who wrote the story, is a movie historian as well as a critic. In fact, he has just completed a nine-month stint as coproducer and writer of Life Goes to the Movies, a three-hour TV retrospective of movies made between 1936 and 1972, which will be shown on NBC Oct. 31. "I saw hundreds of old movies for the LIFE project," says Schickel, "and was reminded that there was an innocent...
...older but better," boasted spry Choreographer George Balanchine, 72, after arriving in Paris for the first visit in eleven years by his New York City Ballet company. Accompanied by prodigal Ballerina Suzanne Farrell, 31, who had rejoined the Balanchine troupe after a 4½-year stint with the Bejart ballet in Brussels, the dance master made a trip to the jewelry shop of Van Cleef & Arpels. The reason: Balanchine's dazzling ballet Jewels, which had its French premiere last week, had been inspired 15 years ago by Claude Arpels, president of the jewelry company's Fifth Avenue branch...
...Mark's, Harry displayed no sign of the feverish eccentricity that was to characterize the rest of his life. He was a mediocre student, and a mediocre athlete headed for an undistinguished career at Harvard until the war intervened. At 19, he headed for France. His four-year stint in the American Ambulance Corps presumably spurred the development of his macabre sensibility, but Geoffrey Wolff offers virtually no explanation as to why experiences shared by so many young men had such a unique impact on Crosby...
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, professor of Government and New York senatorial candidate, returned to Harvard last semester from a stint at the United Nations, and was greeted by a packed house at his introductory lecture on "Ethnicity in Politics." A police officer stood guard at the Sever classroom door to insure that the class would not be interrupted by reporters. When a student attempted to leave in the middle of the lecture, Moynihan yelled, "Sir, sir, someone bring that student back in here." The student was apprehended and returned to his seat...