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...Police Commissioner"), and small-time real estate men--danced jigs, bought drinks, and ate too-sweet brownies. It was their night. Mrs. Hicks came in first, 13,000 ahead of the other nominee, Secretary of State Kevin H. White, and 20,000 ahead of state Rep. John W. Sears. In a phone-cluttered City Club office reached by crawling into a fireplace hearth, lifting a trapdoor, and climbing down some stairs, one of Mrs. Hicks' campaign strategists snorted, "We aren't amateurs here." He predicted firm victory in November...

Author: By Paul J. Corkery, | Title: 'Every Little Breeze' | 9/27/1967 | See Source »

...light turn-out of 155,000--about 56 per cent of the city's registered voters--produced 43,719 votes for Mrs. Hicks to White's 30,497. Unofficial returns put State Rep. John Sears, the first Republican in two decades to ener the non-partisan mayoralty race, in third place with 23,879. Edward Logue, former head of the Boston Redevelopment Authority, came in a close fourth with...

Author: By Kerry Gruson, | Title: Mrs. Hicks, White Voted Places in Mayor Run-off | 9/27/1967 | See Source »

Harvard is losing its rep. Rumors have it that the Admissions Department is running scared because some of the best minds of this generation are passing up the golden opportunity to come to Harvard. "The action ain't in the East," one beeded guru was quoted as saying when he turned Harvard down for Berkeley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Make Harvard Safe For Hippies | 9/25/1967 | See Source »

Improvement by typical graduates in words per minute.* Easy Easy Easy Dif. Dif. Name Occupation Bg. End. Bg. End Burns, K., engineer 440 1536 272 2464 Bonner, P., sales rep. 292 816 320 840 Honeywell Carlson, E., engineer 240 1000 210 1100 Cleary, M., salesman 365 1728 240 1920 Dushman, B., B.U. student 536 2583 522 2510 Fabiyi, E., trainee, A.D.L. 220 1584 270 780 Hamlen, D., ins't supervisor 490 1500 402 1000 Hoagland, J., vice pres. 320 3000 236 1160 Jones, L., assoc. prof. 415 3225 280 2416 Jones, M., math teacher 362 624 260 1160 Turner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Meet George Scialabba, 19 He likes to play Squash He is a Junior at Harvard He can read 2000 words a minute | 9/25/1967 | See Source »

...conservative line, are staunch civic boosters. The Repository has campaigned for the establishment of a professional-football hall of fame in Canton. It has been similarly attentive to the locally based Timken Roller Bearing Co., world's largest tapered roller-bearing manufacturer. "I can't remember the Rep ever speaking out against anything the Timken family wanted," says a Canton businessman. About the harshest criticism leveled at the Ports mouth (Ohio) Times, according to Editor George W. Stowell, comes from "mothers who are upset when we fail to cover Little League baseball games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: Strength in the Afternoon | 9/8/1967 | See Source »

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