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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concession when Hickel's lead narrowed. Last week's official canvass put the vote at 33,145 for Hickel, 32,065 for Egan and 1,085 for an independent. The outcome confirmed the number of governorships won by the G.O.P. so far (excluding Georgia) at 23 (v. eleven for the Democrats), for a net gain of eight, and control of 25 statehouses...
...destiny?" Most of Australia's 6,000,000 voters got the point. At week's end, as the election returns piled up, Holt's coalition had gained four seats in the country's 124-seat House of Representatives and run its total to 75 v. 43 seats for the Labor Party, with six seats still in doubt...
Standards for judging a book obscene became hopelessly confused when it was decided in Ginzburg v. U.S. that booksellers and distributors would be prosecuted for selling books that were "commercially exploited for the sake of prurient appeal, to the exclusion of all other values...
With the moderates holding the balance of power, the stalemate has checked the racist and conservative tendencies of at least the Republican candidate. The Republican National Committee has sent Ray V. Humphreys, a political education specialist, to work with Georgia Republicans to move the party away from Goldwaterism to the moderate stand that won for Rockefeller in Arkansas. Middle-of-the-roaders have been trying to persuade Callaway to make a strong appeal for the Negroes and moderate whites who wrote in for Arnall in the general election...
...from European drama conservatories, Director Theodore Hoffman refuses to let his 222 students act until they have been through a year of drilling in the fundamentals of the theater-voice, mime, satire, circus stunts. Only then are they permitted to perfect their art by performing 15 hours a week (v. three to six at most schools). "Perform or perish," says Hoffman...