Word: affair
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Ackermann's involvement in Cambridge politics has been a 14-year affair, starting with election, and two successive re-elections to the school committee. Then, in 1967, she entered and handily won the contest for councilor, a post she has easily retained in later elections. In 1971, when reform candidates narrowly captured a 5-4 majority in the council, she was made the first woman mayor of the city. And last election, though an independent majority forced her to step down from the city throne, Ackermann helped engineer the famous "living room deal" which brought in James L. Sullivan...
...humiliating 9-0 loss in Hanover was still a bitter one in the minds of returning 'Cliffe veterans. One of them, co-captain Carlene Rhodes, turned in a sparkling performance. The goalie, who in the words of teammate Diana Finch "always stands out," kept Radcliffe in the tense affair with superb netminding...
...from across the land coming out of their shells to pull the ol' Pocock for a final fling. It's 2830 oarsfolk, almost 600 of them women, all on hand to cruise the Charles for the eleventh annual running of the Head of the Charles Regatta. The three-mile affair kicks off tomorrow morning at the crack...
This year's contest figures to be another knock-down, drag-out affair. Both Harvard and Dartmouth are undefeated in Ivy play. The Crimson is coming off its best game of the year against Cornell last week, while the Big Green tied Ivy favorite Brown last week. The victor of today's game will clearly be the top contender for the Ivy title, and both teams want it, need it, badly...
...purported reason for the kidnaping of Patty that started the whole bizarre affair appeared last week in the San Francisco Examiner, the oldest newspaper in the Hearst chain. It printed a lengthy excerpt from an S.L.A. document said to have been found at the Harrises' apartment after their arrest. The paper, which had no identifiable author, declared that the S.L.A. had grabbed Patty in revenge for the arrest on Jan. 10, 1974 of Russell Little and Joseph Remiro, members of the terrorist group who were later sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Marcus Foster, Oakland...