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After coordinating his brother's cam paign in 13 Western states, Lawyer Ted Kennedy, 28, took an apartment on Boston's Beacon Hill. Last week his immediate future seemed determined with the report that the ex-Harvard football player would become an assistant district attorney of Massachusetts' Suffolk County. A couple of crafty, mach 2 base runners stole their way into the already plaque-packed Baseball Hall of Fame. This year's unanimous choices: William ("Sliding Billy") Hamilton and Max ("Scoop") Carey (originally Max Carnarius). Hamil ton, a hard-hitting igth century National Leaguer...
...Massachusetts State House looms imposingly on Beacon Hill, but the government it houses resembles a colonial saltbox overlaid with the bureaucratic gingerbread of the 19th and 20th centuries. The Legislature has patched up the holes in the Constitution with occasional adhesive tape and bobby pins, but still refuses to recondition its whole structure. Since the political atmosphere on the Hill fosters hesitancy and inertia, only a Constitutional Convention can accomplish complete and intelligent reform of the State's government...
...many Bay Staters, the Smith appointment was more offensive than Bobby Kennedy's to be Attorney General. Brother Teddy Kennedy, just back from a five-week swing through Africa, unexpectedly took a lease on a new apartment in Boston's Beacon Hill-apparently abandoning his long-talked-about plan to move West to Arizona. Next question: With Bobby in the Attorney General's chair, were the Kennedys grooming Teddy to take over Jack's Senate seat...
Considering this natural resistance, constitutional reform is gathering surprisingly broad support both on Beacon Hill and among the electorate. But while politicians praise revision on the stump, its proponents disagree strongly how to accomplish it: through the General Court or a Constitutional Convention...
...Beacon Hill, legislators from Cambridge have already introduced bills to facilitate sale or lease of the land to Sullivan and Chase, who recently promoted construction of the Treadway Motor (on stilts) in Brattle Sq. There has been speculation that success of the new might lead to closing of the MTA in Harvard...