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...House, the G.O.P. picked up only 13 seats, and in the Senate, where Republicans needed five to claim control, they lost two seats. That left the Democrats ahead 57 to 43 in the Senate and 243 to 192 in the House, where three seats will be declared vacant. The Democrats also made a net gain of one governorship...
Grim holiday reminders lay all about the smoldering site. Before coming to a halt, the plane had caromed into a vacant lot full of Christmas trees and decorations, scattering them in every direction. When bathed in the glare of the rescue searchlights, the huge upright red, white and blue tail section loomed above the disaster site like an eerie tombstone. One resident, Helen Pristave, had been in her kitchen baking holiday cookies when she heard the crash; Congressman Collins was on his way back to Chicago to coordinate a Christmas party for 10,000 children...
...because he has less to say and more to do. Vincent looks throughout as if he had just received a humiliating score on an IQ test. When, at one point, he is called upon to say "I live inside my head," we know that he is talking about a vacant room...
...Kissinger indicates he might wish to return sometime in the near future, however, the Department will probably keep the post vacant, Wilson said...
...killing of Kitty Genovese, the New York girl whose death in 1964 became celebrated because her screams for help were ignored by at least 38 neighbors. In 1968, while out of prison briefly for minor surgery in a Buffalo hospital, Moseley escaped from his guards and hid in a vacant house Neighbors telephoned Mr. and Mrs Matthew Kulaga, relatives of the owner, who came to investigate. Moseley captured the couple at gunpoint, raped Mrs. Kulaga and beat up her husband. Moseley was subsequently recaptured. The Kulagas sued-not Moseley, who hardly has assets to pay damages- but the state. Moseley...