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...friend" is too sweetly platonic. "Boyfriend" and "girlfriend" are a bit adolescent. "Partner" sounds as if they run a hardware store together. The Census Bureau calls them "Partners of the Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters" or PossLQs. Mrs. Billie Jenkins, an elegant hostess who lives on Boston's Beacon Hill, has developed a rather sweet technique for inviting living-together couples to her parties. "I send an invitation to the one of the two I know better," says Mrs. Jenkins, "and I write a personal note on it saying, 'Of course you'll bring your darling George...
Campaign headquarters for Francis W. Hatch Jr. '46--the quiet gentleman from Beverly Farms who wants to be governor of Massachusetts--are not what you would expect. The walls are yellow and peeling--just a little hole in the wall on 14 Beacon Street. One switchboard, six telephones, no hold buttons, no cotton ribbed turtlenecks--just a bunch of kids, sitting around stuffing envelopes. There is one sign on the wall. "Make the King the Ruler of Massachusetts for the next four years, and you'll think Henry the VIII was a nice...
...Beacon Brass Quintet--Music of Palestrina, Aram, Joplin, Dahland and others. At Walpole State Prison Walpole. Free. Call 353-3345 for details...
...their $1.5 million budgets on TV. While Rhodes has only two paid campaign aides, Celeste has built a professional organization throughout usually Republican southern Ohio and is counting on disaffection with Rhodes among normally Democratic urban voters in northern Ohio. Last week a statewide poll by the Akron Beacon Journal showed Celeste moving ahead by four percentage points-quite a turnabout from polls that once gave Rhodes a 20-point lead. But Rhodes professes to be unconcerned. Said he: "I haven't even opened...
...eccentric Fenway Park. The seats so embrace the field that the fans literally feel the joy and agony of each play. The fans come in all shapes and classes. They talk about the same plays on assembly lines, in shipyards, at academic meetings, during black-tie dinners on Beacon Hill, and at the stately clubs. Yale President A. Bartlett Giamatti wears a Sox cap. Humberto Cardinal Medeiros asked how they were doing just before the papal conclave. Senator Edward Kennedy upon his return from Moscow discussed with House Speaker Tip O'Neill the Yankees' four-game "Boston Massacre...