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Lyons withdrew his request Sunday night, after Lexington. Worcester and Woburn had reviewed their numbers. "It was too many votes to turn around," he said yesterday...
...gubernatorial race by almost 3 to 1. The surprise is that the G.O.P is spending as much time and money as it is in what looks like a foredoomed effort to unseat Graham. Bafalis, 52, a five-term Congressman from Fort Myers Beach, entered the race at the personal request of President Reagan. He expects to receive $1 million from G.O.P. coffers, and officials of the Administration have descended on Florida in droves to campaign...
Atkinson was flabbergasted by the request, and so, it seems, was Perry. This Monday she hastily convened a news conference to say that she no longer would settle for impregnation; Mitchelson had spoken wrong. The end result: Mitchelson looked like a headline-grabber, not an innovative attorney, and his client looked positively flaky. Wire service reporters have taken to calling her case the "no-deposit, no-return" lawsuit. Other monikers are less subtle...
...SCHOOL saga, Jack Greenberg unwittingly played a perfect martyr to this cause. A man who has quietly devoted his life to furthering the rights of Black people. Greenberg was brought into the issue innocently, at the request of a Black civil rights lawyer who wanted him to help teach the course. Suddenly, however, he was bearing the blame for the Law School's suspect tenuring process. Minority students were demanding that he be disinvited to teach the course, and that a minority professor be brought in his place...
Unfortunately, Vellucci's fellows on the city council could not decide if they had the authority to rename the Charles and postponed any definite action. The request has yet to be reconsidered...