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...McMahon won another distance race today, capturing the NEAAU 30-kilometer Championships at New Bedford, but someone else got the first-place trophy...
...could have been better, but it was entertaining since entrants were able to see both the filth and beauty of New Bedford, hear Jock Semple, and receive a $1 plaid bowling bag made in Japan for finishing 46th...
...next big event is the NEAAU 3--kilometer race this Sunday in New Bedford. Thirty kilometers is a pretty ambitious workout for most people this early in the season. "I just want to run more than I walk, and stay under 12 minutes a mile," one energetic man said...
Farmer opposed Nixon when he ran for Congress during the last election in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant district. A registered Liberal, he ran on the Republican ticket but supported Hubert Humphrey. The Negro district elected Democrat Shirley Chisholm, making her the first Negro Congresswoman. In recent weeks, Farmer has been increasingly impressed by Nixon ("He means to bring the nation together...
...first black man in history to lose to a black woman for Congress." The man who founded CORE 26 years ago is more than that. His biography would practically write the story of the civil rights movement. His loss to Mrs. Shirley Chisholm in New York's Bedford-Stuyvesant district came at the will of the Democratic machine which has a stranglehold on the ghetto. The election does not detract from his prestige and left no personal bitterness--only a few campaign anecdotes and a contempt for machine politics...