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...Senators running for election this year, North Carolina Democrat Samuel James Ervin Jr., 65, has less to worry about than anyone. Last week he won his party's nomination unopposed. And in North Carolina-where there is a substantive Republican vote-the G.O.P. can only offer token opposition against Ervin in November...
...camera for his grandchildren to see ("They must grow up into internationalists"). He hopes, with his hosts, to establish a program of summer visits to each other's country by Japanese and American boys. He is even prepared to apologize for the 1942 raid, and as a token of his regret, he is going to present the Brookings Jaycees with the 400-year-old samurai sword he carried strapped to the seat of his airplane during his raids...
...North--for its part--must not assume that the rides are anything more than a token of the bankruptcy of the segregationist movement. Set against the tides of migration--poor whites as well as Negroes--already leaving the farms of the South, the New Orleans refugees are insignificant, the tiniest handful of bewildered, defeated...
...when he got whipped for lieutenant governor. Now, as the only liberal and unqualified Kennedy supporter in the field, he got labor backing. He also took home-town Houston handily. And a lot of Texans confused him with U.S. Senator Ralph Yarborough, who is no kin (by the same token, some voters mistakenly supposed that Connally was related to former Senator Tom Connally). Yarborough, as a result, finished second, with 312,000 votes...
...with the best winners ever. Reflecting better high school guidance, the colleges got fewer applicants than last year: 36,000 boys for 8,630 places in the eight-campus Ivy League; 9,800 girls for 2,800 places at the "Big Seven" women's colleges. By the same token, rejections were more heartbreaking than ever. Columbia and Radcliffe reported that 85%-90% of all applicants were perfectly qualified; there was simply no more room. Except for Columbia College, which aims to raise enrollment by 60% to 4,000, the top colleges are loath to expand...