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...broom sticking out of the rear window of his green Ford, David L. Boren drove across Oklahoma, promising to reform the government and "sweep the Old Guard" out of office if he were elected Governor. At the start of his campaign, Boren, 33, was scarcely known outside Oklahoma Baptist University, where he teaches government, and the state capitol, where he is a four-term representative. But his message caught on, and "Boren Broom Brigades" sprang up all over the state. Last week they swept the chubby, soft-spoken Rhodes scholar to a decisive win over Congressman Clem R. McSpadden...
...dispute has been simmering since April, when Alice Moore, a member of the Kanawha County school board, objected to many books chosen for the fall term by the teachers' Textbook Selection Committee. Then the Rev. Marvin Horan of the Leewood Freewill Baptist Church took up the crusade, and opposition to the books spread among the county's strict fundamentalists. They took exception, among other things, to Sigmund Freud's Character and Anal Eroticism, selections by Pulitzer-prizewinning Poet Gwendolyn Brooks and Authors Dick Gregory and Eldridge Cleaver, and a profile of Poet Allen Ginsberg featuring a description...
...Southern Route is a new play about an immense traffic jam. Whatever you think about the Kennedy Library, it might be worth checking out. The play had its "grand opening" yesterday at the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, 1151 Mass. Ave, and will be there for about six weeks. Thurs, Fri and Sat at 9 p.m. $2.50--$3.50. This weekend, there'll be parties after the performance...
Gomes becomes the first black and the first Baptist to hold the position...
Curtin underwent surgery yesterday at New England Baptist Hospital to repair a ruptured tendon in his left hand's ring finger. Curtin sustained the injury Saturday during a dual scrimmage against Brown and the University of New Hampshire when he grabbed an opponent's jersey...