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...first in a series of 13 flashbacks to "sports events that made history." Tonight: The Giant's Robby Thomson beats the Brooklyn Dodgers with his home run heard around the world in the 1951 National League playoffs. Ch. 2, 8 p.m. 1/2 hour...
...HAMPSHIRE. Obdurate as a boulder of New Hampshire granite, Republican Governor Meldrim Thomson, 62, conducted his primary campaign as though he had never heard of the 20th century. He was against-or indifferent to-the fashionable political trends: demands for consumer protection, campaign reform, saving the environment, helping the elderly, creating an energy policy. In contrast, those issues were all favored by Thomson's opponent, David Nixon, 42, president of the New Hampshire senate and-since there is no Lieutenant Governor-the second-highest official in the state. What's more, Nixon, no kin to the ex-President...
...explanation was simple: taxes. New Hampshire is the only state with no sales or income tax, and ever since his election in 1972, Thomson has vowed to keep it that way. Nixon tried to slide around the issue by saying that the state might get enough from the Federal Government's revenue-sharing program to make any new tax unnecessary...
That was not good enough. Nor could Nixon make any ground on other fronts, including his "Watergate North" charge against Thomson for prowling through business tax records that involved his political opponents-a search that has since been declared illegal by the state's supreme court. Governor Thomson's opponent will be Democrat Richard Leonard, 55, a former state senator from Nashua and a fervent antitax man himself...
...survivors have suffered staggering losses-$47.8 million for the 435 remaining N.Y.S.E. retail firms in April of this year alone. Last week it was the turn of one of Wall Street's oldest houses: W.E. Hutton & Co., founded in 1886, confirmed that it was talking merger with Thomson & McKinnon Auchincloss Kohlmeyer...