GOP Has Slim Chance To Win Senate Control
Washington report weighs 1968 Senate math as Democrats hold 64 seats to Republicans 36. GOP could gain at most six seats per liberals group, while needed 26 to seize majority, with figures like Scranton Rhodes McCall debated for future races.
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la Crosse Tribune
Senate
Washington
National Committee For
Congress
GOP
Pennsylvania
William W. Scranton
Scranton
Ate
Joseph S. Clark
Ohio
James A. Rhodes
Frank J. Lausche
Oregon
Tom McCall
Wayne Morse
Britain Names Day-Lewis New Poet Laureate
Prime Minister Harold Wilson appointed Cecil Day-Lewis as Britain's new poet laureate following the death of John Masefield. Day-Lewis, age 63, plans to write on state occasions yet dodge topics that do not move him, and remains best known as the mystery writer Nicholas Blake with works like Minutes of Murder and The Buried Day.
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Britain
Lewis New
Michael Codel
London
Cecil Day- Lewis
Torrey Canyon
Day-Lewis
Harold Wilson
John Masefield
Wilson
Robert Graves
John Betjeman
William Plomer
Edmund Blunden
William Wordsworth
Robert Southey
Alfred Tennyson
Nicholas Blake
Merger of Broadcasting Telephone Firms Canceled
New York AP ITT directors cancel the 2.8 billion merger with American Broadcasting Companies Inc after a New Year meeting. DoJ antitrust concerns and delays cited. Leonard H. Goldenson of ABC regrets the decision and says ABC will push to strengthen growth and may pursue other mergers.
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NEW York
International Telephone & Telegraph Corp
ITT
American Broadcasting Companies Inc
Department of Justice
Leonard H. Goldenson
ABC
Pope Sees Terrible Obstacles to Peace in 1968
Pope Paul VI warned of new terrible obstacles to peace notably in Vietnam as world leaders marked the new year. President Johnson and Japanese premier pledged to work for peace while Hanoi hinted at eased terms for talks. U S actions to shrink the balance of payments and a national football viewing day framed a cold, busy start to 1968.
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Vatican City
Vietnam
Gies
LBJ
Texas
Johnson
Eisaku Sato
Hanoi
Nguyen Duy Trinh
U.S. State Department
Wid
U.S
Americas
Western Hemisphere
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Aberfan
Cecil Day-Lewis
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Associated Press
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Wisconsin
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Squire Shop
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