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...last week for the U.S. Senate seat vacated this year by Lyndon Johnson, the result was a repudiation of the New Frontier. The top two, who will soon be matched in a runoff: Conservative Republican John Tower, 35, with 326,400 votes, and Conservative Democrat William Blakley, 62, the interim incumbent, with 191,000 votes...
Since 1946 the Court has handled 46 cases. Most spectacular was Britain's oil dispute with Iran in 1952, when Premier Mohammed Mossadegh himself appeared at the Court to defend nationalization of the British wells and refinery. When The Hague judges handed down an interim ruling in Britain's favor, Mossadegh simply declared that Iran would no longer accept the Court's jurisdiction. Last year the Court finally, after years of arguments, ruled for Honduras in the ancient Honduras-Nicaragua border squabble, but to this day the judges have received no official word as to whether Nicaragua...
...Sept. 28 Kanza returned to the Congo and refused to participate in Mobutu's College of Commissioners, the country's interim government...
...Massachusetts, President-elect Kennedy resigned his U.S. Senate seat before the end of the year so that Democratic Governor Foster Furcolo, who had been defeated last November by Republican John A. Volpe, could appoint a Kennedy pal, Benjamin A. Smith, as Kennedy's interim Senate successor. "By resigning before Jan. 1," wrote Lawrence, "Senator Kennedy prevented the Republican Governor from making the appointment. This kind of political maneuvering is not novel, but it doesn't erase the fact that a successor to Senator Kennedy cannot be voted on now for two years...
...special election has been set for April to elect Johnson's successor. The interim appointee, Dallas Multimillionaire William A. Blakley, will serve only until then-unless Blakley, who is standing for Johnson's seat, wins the special election...