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...details of the kidnaping, the ladder at the window, the ransom note. "I was afraid of a lunatic. But the well-made plan knocks that out." Again and again throughout the letters, Mrs. Lindbergh assures her correspondent-and herself-that professional kidnapers would not kill the baby. March 9th: "We rest on our assurances that the baby is safe. . . C. slept late this morning and went out for a walk. Our colds have vanished." March 16th: "They keep assuring me they are certain the baby will be returned. . . we must play a game of patience...
Politics in Boston's old 9th used to be fairly predictable. The old inner city district had a hard-core Democratic electorate of Italians, Irish. Hacks and working class whites that had faithfully delivered about 40 per cent of its votes to conservative Democrat Louise Day Hicks in her campaigns for the School Committee, the Boston mayoralty and the U.S. Congress...
State-Senator Bob Cawley, hoping to defeat Hicks in the 1972 Democratic primary race for Congress, led a major redistricting move in 1971 which cut away three Dorchester wards--major Hicks strongholds--from the 9th and added seven upper middle class suburban towns to the district...
Before the redistricting, a map of the 9th District looked like a long, irregular polygon. Now it doesn't look like much of anything except a classic case of gerrymandering. The "new 9th" is an irrational district which combines urban with suburban problems and wealthy property towners with poverty line constituents...
...primary day and promising new responsive representation for the new diverse district Chy Councillor John "Joe" Moakley declared himself in. In dependent while avowedly remaining a Democrat at heart and urned the November general election for Congress into a contest between the Old and the New politics in the 9th District...