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...Republican showing in the races for lower state offices and especially for the General Court (Massachusetts' legislature), indicate that the party has undergone no re-birth. Democrats were re-elected as state treasurer, auditor, and secretary of state by overwhelming majorities despite serious Republican efforts to capture these offices. In the House of Representatives, Democrats still hold a two-thirds majority (170-69), and the Senate margin is almost as wide (26-14). Republicans, citing that 107 House and 15 Senate seats went by default to the Democrats, claimed that they could have done better if they had contested more...
Bandits & Opium. As one of his many admiring colleagues puts it, Page is "a daredevil, an adventurer of the old school, not for publicity's sake, but because he is incredibly bored at doing anything else but the hairiest of man's feats." The son of an auditor, Page led a fairly normal life until his graduation from a good grammar school near London, then bought a Volkswagen bus and started driving from Amsterdam to Nepal. It took him a year; he then blithely climbed a few Himalayan mountains, began hitchhiking to Laos...
Galbraith does not propose the complete elimination of private contributions. Rather he suggests a limit of $25 per person in any one general or primary election. "All such contributions would be paid not to the candidate but to the state auditor, who would in turn redistribute them to the designated candidates .... It will be observed that this arrangement would allow public participation in campaign financing and allow a candidate with a genuinely wide following to benefit therefrom...
...claimed had been mishandled. Wilson was shot to death for his pains April 5. This month Lloyd Green, another crusading official of the same union, met the same fate. After the arrest (TIME, May 20) of five murder suspects-two of whom had been fund trustees, another its auditor-authorities understandably started taking a closer look at the disputed $500,000 welfare account...
Some 400 students pack his lectures, spill into the aisles, seem mesmerized for the hour. He begins in a whisper to force silence, raises his voice to make a point, then stares "with a kind of eye that burns right through you," as one auditor puts it, while the point sinks home. With crystal clarity and obvious joy at a neat explanation, Wald carries his students from protons in the fall to living organisms in the spring, ends most lectures with some philosophical peroration on the wonder...