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...state's two Republican representatives, Margaret Heckler, who represents the tenth Congressional district stretching from Wellesley to Fall River, leads narrowly in her race to retain her seat against a strong challenge from Democratic State Rep. Robert E. McCarthy of East Bridgewater...
David Glancey, chairman of Philadelphia's Democratic City Committee, observes that Myers has retained pockets of strength in the over-whelmingly working-class First District. But Glancey also is offering his support to Foglietta. He gives the ex-longshoreman with a tenth-grade education--who prefers to be called by his nickname, "Ozzie"--almost no chance of victory. "Sure, there's some feeling that "he's one of our own and we don't care what he did," Glancey says. "Maybe he'll get that kind of vote...
Bartlett edited eight revised editions, slowly admitting novelties like Ralph Waldo Emerson. At his retirement, he left a literary monument that remained un touched for almost a quarter-century. The year 1914 echoed to the guns of August, and the tenth edition of Bartlett's vibrated with new quotations from foreigners: Lewis Carroll, Nietzsche, Shaw, George Eliot (also, belatedly, Thoreau's Walden, but still no Hawthorne or Melville). The '20s and '30s brought yet another revolution in literary sensibilities, and new Editor Christopher Morley decided in 1937 that the best rule for choosing a quotation...
...turn at bat. Twice again the Royals scratched out a one-run lead; twice again Philadelphia responded in kind. For only the 40th time in 453 World Series games, play went into extra innings. With a full house of noisy fans on their feet for the duration of the tenth inning, the Royals pushed across the winning run at last. With two men on base, Philadelphia Relief Pitcher Tug McGraw walked Brett, preferring to pitch to First Baseman Willie Aikens. Bad move. Aikens, who earlier had become the second player in history to hit two home runs in his first...
Harvard's three freshmen from the People's Republic of China (PRC) constitute about one-tenth of the undergraduates from that country now studying in the United States. Other colleges with more than one PRC undergraduate include Sonoma State University of California (5), Georgetown University (4), The University of California at Riverside (4), Temple University (3), and SUNY Albany, according to rough figures kept by the Committee on Scholarly Communications with...