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...governorship by capturing 80% of the Negro vote?which turned out to be his margin of victory. South Carolina Democrat Ernest ("Fritz") Rollings' 10,000-vote margin for a U.S. Senate seat came mostly from Negro votes. In Maryland, Republican Agnew beat Mahoney on the votes of poor Negroes, upper-income Jews and Government workers from nearby Washington...
...state's Second District (including Ann Arbor), Republicans ousted Democratic Freshman Weston Vivian, an engineering Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, by the simple expedient of recruiting a Ph.D. of their own (in speech), State Representative Marvin L. Esch, 39. In the Upper Peninsula, Republican Businessman Philip E. Ruppe bounced a fourth L.B.J. coattail product, Raymond Clevenger, despite frenetic federal pork-barreling on the latter's behalf?including a post office for microscopic Christmas, Mich, (pop. 120), which now foresees a future as a yuletide mailing center...
...People who can see have a legal duty to protect the blind. In Upper Darby, Pa., James Argo, a blind broom peddler, entered an office building to hawk his wares for the 40th time in ten years. This time, workmen had removed the floor. Argo plunged 18 feet, suffered serious injuries, and won a jury verdict of $27,500. Rejecting the landlord's appeal, the Pennsylvania court ruled that henceforth landlords must foresee potential dangers to the state's 15,000 blind citizens. Argo, held the court, was entitled to the simplest imaginable safeguard: "The defendants could have...
...unfinished business. Before splashing down in the western Atlantic on Tuesday, they planned a tethered flight with Agena and a space walk by Aldrin designed to evaluate man's ability to work in space. In another experiment, they will photograph a sodium vapor cloud released into the upper atmosphere by a high-flying French rocket to coincide with the passage of Gemini...
Milton is a pleasant suburban town on the South Shore with a large upper middle-class, well-educated Irish population. Milton went for Volpe, Brooke Richardson, and Sargent, but at the same time overwhelmingly chose two Democrats as representatives over two hard-fighting, attractive Republicans...