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...gives a fuck about dual meets?" I once heard a swimmer remark. "The only thing I give a damn about are the Eastern and the Nationals." With these words of wisdom in mind, and with Harvard's dual-meet slate (which ended last week with a traditional blitzing by Yale) finally over, the Crimson will be looking for greater glory when it returns to New Haven this weekend for the year's version of the Eastern Seabord Championships...
...working with road maps, a pocketful of dimes for pay-phone calls, and tips from an ever-widening circle of political contacts, Howell began rounding up troops and votes. On a weekend stop at the University of Florida, he persuaded three students to run for delegate on a Muskie slate. One recent morning, he kept an appointment with a Jacksonville attorney who was interested in Muskie, then asked to use the phone in an adjoining office; soon three of the lawyer's lines were tied up with incoming calls from prospective volunteers...
...blacks and six Mexican Americans among the 25 people who will represent the state in Miami. With only eight women in the delegation, there is the threat of a challenge, but the delegation approximates the character of the state's population. In 1960, one man picked the entire slate; in 1968, a handful of men drew up the delegate list. In 1972, more than 35,000 Arizona Democrats voted in the January election; 465 attended the state convention, and despite the smoke-filled room, the reforms worked...
This time, instead of overt defiance, the liberals concentrated on tactical victories and "a moderate, measured show of strength," as Slonimski put it. The large Warsaw chapter of the union voted down most of the government slate of potential delegates, and sent a more independent and distinguished group to Lodz. At the convention, a total of seven liberals-including Zbigniew Herbert, Poland's leading lyric poet-were elected to the 24-man executive committee that had previously been composed entirely of conservatives. Jerzy Putrament, who for 20 years has been the party's politruk, or watchdog, within...
Chisholm's Ninth District slate includes Patricia Bonner-Lyons, unsuccessful candidate for School Committee in Cambridge last year; Mel King, former head of the Urban League in Boston; and Byron D. Rushing...