Word: beate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parlayed his flair for dramatics into a 22-year city council career, with a unique combination of New Deal-type liberalism and old-fashioned, neighborhood politics. Though he has not lost a race since he was first elected to the school committee in 1951 (when he says he "beat the pants off of Professor Raubough of Harvard"), Vellucci's fortunes, unbuffered by formal alliances or organizations, have never been secure. In 1975 he finished eighth in a nine-seat race and now, following published allegations that he had a no-show state job and that certain independent city council candidates...
Under the new legislation, 108 million workers and their employers will ante up $112 billion to the Social Security system next year and more in every succeeding year. The House beat back an attempt to bring into the Social Security system about 6 million additional workers (2.4 million federal employees, 3 million state and local government employees and 200,000 workers for nonprofit organizations). The move would have increased the system's revenues by as much as $4 billion a year. It was opposed in particular by federal workers, who are already covered by a retirement program that pays them...
...standing ovation from his colleagues and from the overflowing galleries continued while Hubert Humphrey moved vigorously around the chamber, greeting friends, among them a number of onetime adversaries, with handshakes and bear hugs. There were warm reunions with Bob Byrd, who beat him out for the post of majority leader only last January; Ted Kennedy, who fought him on behalf of his brothers; Strom Thurmond, who led segregationists in a protest at the 1948 Democratic Convention after upstart Humphrey, a mere 37 and mayor of Minneapolis, issued a clarion call for civil rights. "The greatest gift of life is friendship...
...only squad the Crimson managed to edge was Brown, but once again the harriers trailed Columbia and Penn, who beat Harvard in a tri-meet earlier in the season at Van Cortland...
PENN at HARVARD: First of all, let's get one thing straight: despite what I might write in the next 20 lines, Harvard will win its two remaining contests, Yale and Dartmouth will lose theirs, Brown will beat Dartmouth but lose to Columbia, and the Crimson will solo...