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...Christopher Del Sesto, 49, an Italian-American in a state where voters of Italian descent pack a ballot-box wallop. It was a conditional victory, since Del Sesto, himself a former Democrat and a special assistant to the U.S. Attorney General in the Antitrust Division, won by a meager 190 votes when the voting-machine score was added up. Still to be counted: 11,000 absentee ballots...
...place for a correspondent to get to. None made it last week, though some were trying by way of Khartoum and Libya. By commercial plane and chartered flight, 50 correspondents streamed into Tel Aviv. But Israel refused to accredit any foreigners to its forces, gave out the news in meager communiques. Newsmen tried to drive to the front in taxicabs, but the roads were closely guarded, and few made it. Yet they managed to file 800,000 words in the first four days of hostilities, all through two weary, sleepless operators, the only men left in the cable office after...
...forms of rheumatism have in common is that they affect connective tissue. Despite its wide occurrence in the body, connective tissue* is still something of a mystery to medical researchers. And because rheumatism is a crippler rather than a killer, and victims drag out their lives undramatically, only meager funds have been allocated for research into its causes and cures. Recently research has been stepped up on a broad front. The result has been dramatic progress in some areas, but disappointingly little in others. The scoreboard...
Swinging east, then south across the land last week in the waning warmness of Indian summer, Richard Nixon generated a waxing optimism. Alerted before his trip against meager crowds, the Vice President found audiences as fat in doubtful Buffalo as in secure Fort Wayne, Ind. Warned against hoots and hecklers, he heard in 9,000 miles three small choruses of boos. Of these, one was an impartial impoliteness that Yale undergrads had also extended to Adlai Stevenson (TIME...
...motorcades, as a poll-judge and leaflet distributor, the student can at last make idea meet action. It is also, by the way, a chance for the effect and scholarly to encounter the inert and proletarian. If the campaign efforts of a doorbell-ringer or a pamphlet-strewer seem meager, at least there is always the "value of the experience...