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VERMONT: Vermont hasn't had a Democratic Senator since the Civil War. Former Governor Phillip H. Hoff has a good chance of ending the Republican streak, His opponent, incumbent Republican Winston Prouty, is a lacklustre, lukewarm Nixon backer. Hoff is a vibrant, energetic figure who was a popular governor and a leader of the movement for a peace plank in the Democratic platform at the national convention...
FERGUS by Brian Moore. 228 pages. Holt, Rinehart, & Winston...
...week, and over-zealous royalist sharpshooters kept Western journalists virtually imprisoned in Amman's Jordan Intercontinental Hotel. Correspondent Roland Flamini spent eight harrowing days there before he managed to get to Beirut and report on his experience (see PRESS). Needless to say, he is happy to be out. "Winston Churchill once said that there's nothing more gratifying than being shot at without result," Flamini said later. "Personally, I find more gratification in not being shot...
...team formerly studied the effects of LSD on human personality, described in their book The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966; Delta paperback...
...British reneged on part of the deal. The Sherif's son Feisal was made King of Iraq, but a second son, Abdullah, was left with nothing. To make amends, Winston Churchill, then a young British Colonial Secretary, called a conference in Cairo in 1921 which sketched the boundaries of a new kingdom on some unallotted lands near Palestine. The country was called Trans-Jordan...