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Strongly for Wallace, Georgia proved staunchly conservative again this year, even denying liberal Rep. Charles L. Weltner in his bid to regain his Atlanta congressional seat. Herman E. Talmadge, son of the Georgia demagogue, easily won election for a third term...
Humphrey's overwhelming victory helped Democrats in congressional races centering around dogfights in the third, seventh and tenth districts. In the third district veteran Rep. Philip J. Philbin appeared to have won a three way race against Republican Laurence Curtis and Independent Chandler Stevens. In the tenth district Mrs. Margaret M. Heckler, the Republican who unseated former Speaker Joseph W. Martin seems to have handily defeated her Democratic challenger Edmund Dinis. Another incumbent, Rep. Torbert H. MacDonald defeated former White House aid William S. Abbott...
Nixon won North Carolina early in the evening as another Southern state turned in disappointing returns for Wallace. Lt. Gov. Robert W. Scott beat back a strong challenge by Rep. James C. Gardner, and Harvard Law School graduate Sam J. Ervin won re-election to his pereenial Senate seat. In the House, Republicans appear to have picked up one seat, leaving the North Carolina delegation at 7-4, still in favor of the Democrats. One of the victorious Republicans was ex-Cardinal pitcher Vinegar Bend Mizell...
Aside from Congressional resentment, official Republican policy could also pose a fundamental threat to needy students. Rep. Gerald Ford of Michigan, who would be Speaker of a Republican House, sees the tax credit plan which passed the Senate last year as the final solution to student aid problems. The plan also received prominent mention in the GOP platform...
...subcommittee ordered the protest leaders and their attorneys ousted from the room when they stood to stage a silent protest against the hearings. Police ushered them out without resistance. No immediate arrests were made, although the subcommittee chairman, Rep. Richard Ichord, (D-Mo.) warned the protestors they could be charged with trying to disrupt Congress. He told their attorneys they could be cited for contempt...