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...good example is incumbent GOP Sen. John Chafee Rhode Island. He put as much distance between himself and Reagan as he could, but nonetheless is still awaiting the final count of absentee ballots to assure his reelection...
...incidents, and the prominent display they got almost nightly on TV news last week, more than 40 communities in the U.S. banned Halloween trick-or-treating. "I feel like the Grinch-you know, the one who stole Christmas," said Councilman Paul Sharp of Hammond, La., which enacted a ban. Rhode Island Governor J. Joseph Garrahy urged parents to substitute Halloween house parties for trick-or-treating, and New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean signed a law mandating six months in jail for anyone convicted of contaminating Halloween candy, even if no one was harmed...
Senator John Chafee, running for his Republican life in Rhode Island, last week got up the nerve to indulge a growing political suspicion. To raise funds, he held a nonevent. For $25 a supporter could stay home. For $35 he or she received an autographed copy of the speech Chafee did not deliver. For $40 the contributor was excused from reading it. The hopeless political junkie with $75 to give was invited to a chicken dinner - in his own home, the chicken sent in from Colonel Sanders'. For $150 the Senator and his wife dined with the donors...
...NOTEBOOK: While many fans were on hand from all over Massachusetts and Rhode Island, one particular soccer fan made a particularly long journey to view the Harvard-Brown matchup. Yes, E. T., everyone's favorite extra-terrestrial, and equipped with his "Brown Go Home" sign and a basket full of Reese's Pieces, was on hand for the first half. However, once the first stanza ended, he resumed the more earthly form of 9-year-old Dave Field, brother of Harvard's Debbie Field...
With just over one-minute to play in yesterday's field hockey contest between Harvard and the University of Rhode Island, senior forward Kate Martin knocked in a game-winning goal to break a 1-1 tie and up the Crimson record...