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Last week "Libby" Libonati, 56, criminal lawyer ("never got a death penalty, thank God!") and longtime state senator, ran unopposed in the Seventh District's Democratic primary, and so became the party's official nominee for the seat left vacant by the death of Octogenarian James B. Bowler. Barring a miracle, Libonati will win the special election on Dec. 31, and take his place in Congress as a maker of the nation's laws...
...Mexico Superintendent of Public Instruction Georgia Lusk proposed that high school science and math requirements be doubled. But while New York City was also making noises about increasing science requirements, it was still trying to find a director of science for its schools-a post that has been vacant ever since it was created four years...
...that Cunningham's outfit tried to measure "the Boredom Factor" by depth interviews, found that heavy percentages of ordinary viewers-not just the critics-yawning at such TV sacred cows as Arthur Godfrey (47%) and Red Skelton (38%). Cunningham feels that the Boredom Factor causes "dial-twitching, vacant-minded viewing, lower ratings" and, as far as the sponsor is concerned, "less penetration-per-skull per dollar...
...from the Tories, but they have not yet turned to us," said Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell at the Labor Party conference last month. Last week the diagnosis was confirmed in a by-election in the ancient East Anglian market town of Ipswich, held to fill the parliamentary seat left vacant by the death of former Laborite Works Minister Richard Stokes...
...when "the Eastern European seat" last fell vacant, the U.S. supported the Philippines against Yugoslavia, arguing that the 1945 gentlemen's agreement had been intended to last for only two years. As a compromise, it was finally agreed that Yugoslavia and the Philippines should each occupy the disputed seat for half of the normal two-year term. Japan's election carried U.S. strategy a step further. By backing an Asian nation, the U.S. had weaned part of the Afro-Asian bloc away from the Soviet candidate, seemed well on its way to nullifying the so-called Eastern European...