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...deadline for nominations was extended one day--from Thursday to Friday--until there were enough candidates to fill every seat in every House and Yard district, Bramson said. The council traditionally extends the nomination deadline until enough candidates file papers, he added...
...only candidate who did not earn a place on the November ballot is Republican Glenn Fiscus from the Back Bay. Fiscus, who ran against Joseph P. Kennedy II (D-Mass.) for a seat in the House of Representatives last year, garnered just 2717 votes yesterday...
...From the street corners of New York City to the hamlets of Pennsylvania, these gamblers in thick-soled white sneakers begin their pilgrimages at dawn, first making their way to deserted parking lots or pick-up points, then wobbling up the bus steps, down the aisle and into a seat. For Josephine Baumann, 71, a retired cook with the face of Edith Bunker, the trip to Bally's Park Place on a recent Wednesday is a welcome -- and cheap -- respite from arthritis, television and the addicts and prostitutes on her midtown Manhattan block. "I even forget my name," she says...
...Army paratrooper who was badly wounded in the face in Viet Nam, Lehtinen was a Democratic state legislator when he married a Republican colleague, Ileana Ros; a year later, he switched to the G.O.P. Last month Ileana Ros-Lehtinen won election to Congress to fill Claude Pepper's seat. As a legislator, Lehtinen earned a reputation as a hot-tempered, brainy conservative who preferred taking on the Establishment to joining...
Toward the back of the plane, one of the press photographers was sliding lower in his seat, clutching his stomach, turning gray. His worried colleagues were at a loss to help him until someone remembered there was a doctor on board -- and summoned the Prime Minister...