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...Edward McCormack by the thousands to re-elect Italian Republican John Volpe, who had been a good and popular Governor. Volpe even took that oldest Irish stronghold of all, Boston, city of "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald and James Curley. In New York, the Democrats followed the ethnic book by put ting an Italian (Frank Sedita) on the ticket as attorney general, but Rockefeller handily carried the Italian vote...
...Ting Chang, Research Fellow in Biology, was paralyzed for several hours by the shock of the explosion. He was treated for first degree burns under the right arm and on the chest and a contusion to the chest at Cambridge City Hospital. Other students in the Labs were not injured...
High party officials began to fall from power: Peking Party Boss Peng Chen; the capital's Deputy Mayor Wu Han; Army Chief of Staff Lo Jui-ching; Culture Minister Lu Ting-yi. Most of the party purge victims were latecomers to Maoism (only Lo and Lu were on the Long March...
Other victims were the usual intellectuals and teachers, whose mortality rate has always been high in China: Ho Luting, president of the Shanghai Musical College and composer of The East Is Red; Philosopher Feng Ting of Peking University; Opera Singer Chou Hsin-fang (rumored to have committed suicide). Even President Liu Shao-chi, 68, who had long been listed as Mao's most likely successor, was dropped from his No. 2 spot to a distant eighth in the succession ratings. Events reached a climax at last month's secret Central Committee meeting, from which Lin emerged even more...
...behest, Queen Elizabeth suddenly commuted the death sentence of two Rhodesian blacks convicted of set ting houses afire and awaiting execution in a Salisbury prison. The hope was that the voice of the Queen would stir the fire of revolt in Smith's prison authorities, but that hope seemed faint at best. Shrugging off an official warning that executing the two "loyal subjects of the Queen" would be the same thing as murder, Smith made the obvious reply. Wilson, he charged, was trying to "embroil Her Majesty in politics," something that Prime Ministers do at a risk to themselves...