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...quarreling bitterly with his own group because it will not give him what he considers a long enough list of candidates. As a result, despite New York City's crowded courts, 13 judgeships are yet to be filled-and some positions on the bench have been vacant for more than a year...
...restaurant cash registers heralded the return of the 17-nation disarmament conference after a five-month recess. Their euphoria even infected the café au lait-colored Palais des Nations, where some 200 reassembled officials settled back into their bronze and green leather chairs-as usual, leaving three seats vacant for nonattending France-and prepared for the sixth antiwar jaw session since the disarmament conference got under way in 1962. Buoyed by last August's partial test ban treaty, most Western and neutral negotiators expected action this time and greeted a new five-point program from President Johnson...
...moreover be the inaugural vehicle of the Lincoln Center repertory company. Thursday the work had its formal opening--which was a crucial test for Miller, a milestone for the Center, and an all-important event for the American theatre in general. After the Fall clearly puts Miller on the vacant throne; he is the most serious artist that native playwriting has seen since O'Neill...
...Brighton seat has been vacant since the death of Rep. William F. Joyce, a Democrat, in an automobile accident in October...
...awkwardly underscored by a title song, Hollywood's most lamentable habit these days. And the squalid abortion episode is mere nonsense. A moral issue is raised, then sidestepped by presenting a slovenly midwife who totes a flashlight and performs her dark deeds on the floor of a vacant flat. This of course makes abortion conveniently unthinkable...