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Though it was questionable whether further argument would change many votes, the count looked so tight at week's end that there was a spate of last-minute maneuvers. A group of 205 former Supreme Court law clerks, including Dean Acheson, urged Carswell's defeat because of his "mediocrity." In a somewhat ludicrous fumble, California Democrat Alan Cranston charged that a black Government attorney had been forced to write a letter backing Carswell. But Cranston failed to check the story with the lawyer, Charles F. Wilson, who later denied...
...preaching racism. Is the continuing Malcolm X cult just one more outrageous byproduct of the rage and rhetoric that afflict race politics and U.S. culture in general? The answer is, no. And the best way of learning why is to examine yet another post-Malcolm X phenomenon, the spate of books by or about the former Black Muslim leader that have made him a minor industry in the publishing business...
...announcement by Chancellor of the Exchequer Roy Jenkins followed a spate of encouraging indicators. After running a $600 million trade deficit in 1968, Britain last year piled up an estimated $1 billion surplus. Reflecting a return of international confidence in sterling, monetary traders last week bid the pound above par-which is $2.40 -for the first time in 20 months...
...after F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise, young novelists spent their energies on books about college life suffused with sophomoric philosophizing and romantic despair. Then came J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, William Golding's Lord of the Flies, and a spate of imitative books about troubling and precocious children. Since the late '50s and Jack Kerouac's On the Road, the picaresque adventures of rebellious youth seeking wisdom through forbidden experience have been the dominant theme. Now, perhaps, William Harrison's superb second novel-about four contemporary graduate...
SWEET is the taste of victory, but sweeter still political triumph won against the odds or against long-prevailing winds. There was thus a special savor to the celebrations of many of the winners in last week's spate of off-year elections across the nation. Like the city's Mets, John Lindsay came from ignominy to take the mayoralty of New York, and did it without the endorsement of either major party. In Virginia, moderate Republican Linwood Holton seized the Governor's mansion, occupied for 84 years by Democrats. In Cleveland, Carl Stokes, the nation...