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...Republicans simply cannot vote in the primaries because there are no polling booths for them. The President's staff installed central phone banks in 26 counties where some 88% of the G.O.P. vote is concentrated. Ford also outspent Reagan-$450,000 to $250,000; candidates for the Reagan slate, however, spent heavily on their own races...
Yale, you see, is hardly the Cincinnati Reds of the EIBL; The Milwaukee Brewers would be more like it. With a 3-21 slate entering yesterday's contest (0-6 in the EIBL), the Elis had gone 2-11 in Robert E. Lee country, and hadn't fared much better since...
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, professor of Government, led a slate of five Jackson delegates to victory in the Bronx. The sixth delegate elected in that district was the area's Congressman, Johnathan Bingham, who is pledged to Udall...
...hands, the white room seemed clinical, even institutional. So we swabbed it with mops and a great grey steel pail, periodically cleaning the mops under the shower, or shattering the besotted silence of the entry by opening the door and heaving great bags of the detritus out onto the slate. We were too exhausted to finish. Another roommate had stopped briefly to help, but he was too drunk and had begun a crazy sort of dance with the mop, ineffectually smearing the stains into broad brown arcs...
Boyle is now serving three consecutive life terms for first degree murder, and indeed, all the principals of the Yablonski case are now behind bars. In 1972, the Miners For Democracy (MFD) slate of Arnold Miller, Mike Trbovich, and Harry Patrick assumed office, and attempted to give the UMWA back to its membership. They sold the union's Cadillacs, are attempting to sell the union's Washington, D.C. bank, and have made plans to move headquarters to the coalfields from Washington. Chip Yablonski, the murdered leader's son, became union counsel. And the union's safety division now has over...