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Show World Briefs nvs the Court needs. STy a vote of 51 to 45, the Senate Sen-ate resolved its anguish over par-;, ty loyalties and doubts about CaiJDX fitness for the hh-bench hh-bench The votes of five moderate moder-ate Republicans were deceive, but it was not until the roll call had ware Its finish and Mrs. Margaret Chase Smith, the Maine Republican, softly uttered her W-mar tile ouRSJme was no-longer no-longer in doubt. v jirteeRepubllcaneserted Nixon to join 38 Democrats in opposing op-posing the nomination. Twenty-eight Twenty-eight Republicans and 17 Demo-crats Demo-crats all from southern or border bor-der states voted for Carswell. Four Senators were absent, two of them ailing and two? overseas, but had they voted, they would nave cancelled each other out. Nixon Disappointed WASHINGTON iVPli Presi-tfent Presi-tfent - Nixon was "disappointed" ' by the Senate's rejection of the Carswell nomination and will select se-lect another candidate; for the Supreme Court in due course, the White House said Wednesday. "The President said he will submit sub-mit T new nomlnatloTr'K) tfle Senate Sen-ate in due course and there are, of course, no candidates in mind at this time." ; Apollo Postponed Maybe CAPE KENNEDY (UPI) Blood tests confirmed Wednesday Wednes-day that Apollo 13 Astronaut Thomas K. Mattingly has no immunity im-munity to German Measjes, meaning mean-ing he might come down with the disease in space if He moon mission mis-sion is launched Saturday. The development greatly decreased de-creased chances the launch of the nation's third lunar surface expedition will be postponed until May 9. The Space Agency, however, how-ever, made no immediate decision deci-sion on the status of the mission. The Chief Astronaut Physician, Dr. Charles A. Berry, has already said that if any of the three Apollo 13 astronauts Mattingly, Matting-ly, James A. Lovell and Fred W. Hailee were without immunity to measles, "the odds are very high that they would get it." JAPANESE EXPLOSION OSAKA, JAPAN (UPD A thunderous thun-derous explosion at the site of a leaking gas main, followed by a series se-ries of lesser blasts, killed or injured in-jured more than 200 persons in a crowded residential and shopping district Wednesday and touched off a number of fires. ; At least 91 persons were killed and 122 others injured, authorities said. Five hours after the fiery eruptions, erup-tions, Osaka prefectural police said they expected the toll of dead and injured to reach 300. |
