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...Massachusetts' Twelfth Congressional District is a kind of political Wimbledon where the best two out of three sets mean a winner. Roughly one-third of the district-Cape Cod and the Nantucket Sound islands-is Yankee Republican. Another third-the depressed onetime whaling capital of New Bedford-is ethnically Democratic. The South Boston suburbs stretching from Weymouth to Plymouth are fiercely independent; the candidate who can conquer them while holding his own bloc takes everything...
This year two personable contestants face one another in the Twelfth. Democrat Gerry Studds, 35, is a former prep school teacher and Foreign Service officer who even learned Portuguese to improve his image among immigrant New Bedford voters. Opponent William Weeks, 46, is strictly Brahmin: Father Sinclair was Dwight Eisenhower's Commerce Secretary; Grandfather John was Coolidge's Secretary of War. After graduating from Harvard, Weeks himself served for a time as an assistant dean of freshmen at the college. The two are running neck and neck, but McGovern liberalism is hurting Studds...
Parravano, who is blind, was not fined or sentenced for his participation in the May 16 sit-in at Hanscom Field near Bedford, but Judge Salvatore Faraci of the Middlesex Superior Court in Lowell did put the case in the files of the court...
Paul Parravano '73 faces a maximum fine of $220 and a jail sentence of six months for the two charges which stem from a sit-in at Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford...
...ticket price of $25 for the affair certainly discouraged the attendance of any but the wealthy. This is understandable, particularly for an event billed as a fund-raiser. But what is less understandable is that this kind of crowd, made up of people from Newton and Brookline, not New Bedford or South Boston, represents McGovern's most ardent following, and form, in effect, a prison out of which he has been unable to escape...