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...such a rule exists. The whole affair seems awfully trite. I think it is a sad comment on Harvard athletics that a student should be prevented from playing a sport that he enjoys on account of a personal objection to something as far removed from hockey as a necktie. Abraham Morgentaler
...separate incarnations, half a century apart, the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., played rich roles in the nation's history. Before his first in auguration, Abraham Lincoln brought his family to stay at the original Willard, which opened in 1847 within two blocks of the White House. Julia Ward Howe wrote The Battle Hymn of the Republic at the hotel. President Ulysses S. Grant had a special chair in the lobby, where he used to sit and smoke for hours while scandal crackled around his administration...
...York delegation took the prize for the greatest number of nationally known politicians. Crammed into the aisles were Reps. Bella Abzug, Elizabeth Holtzman, Shirley Chisholm, and Herman Badillo; ex-governor Averell Harriman; Mayor Abraham Beame; former Rep. Mario Biaggi; City Councilman Meade Esposito; writer Michael Harrington; and AFL-CIO leader Albert Shanker...
...billion set aside by Congress for operating subsidies will help compensate hard-pressed metropolitan transit systems for rising labor, energy and maintenance costs, thus enabling them to hold the line on fares. After the signing, for example, New York City Mayor Abraham Beame predicted that New York City would now be able to keep its 350 bus and subway fare at least through 1975. Low fares, along with the improvements in equipment and service that the bill's remaining $7.8 billion will bring, should encourage urban Americans to use mass transit instead of relying so heavily on autos...
...opponent, and Hawaii's Daniel Inouye ran virtually unopposed. Alabama's James Allen got 90% of the vote, Georgia's Herman Talmadge 75% and South Carolina's Ernest Boilings 71%. Other re-elected Democrats were George McGovern of South Dakota Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut, Alan Cranston of California, Thomas Eagleton of Missouri Birch Bayh of Indiana, Frank Church of Idaho, Warren Magnuson of Washington, Mike Gravel of Alaska and Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin...