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...Paul Tsongas, a former commissioner and aspiring politican whose "interest wasn't in Middlesex County." When Tsongas left the county for Congress in 1975, the two remaining commissioners, Ralph and Danehy, were left to find someone for the vacancy, with the Middlesex clerk of courts acting as tie-breaker. McLaughlin says Ralph hoped to perpetuate his power by appointing a political ally who had contributed $1000 to Ralph's abortive campaign for state attorney general in 1974. But Danehy and clerk of courts cast their ballots for McLaughlin, then a state representative, instead. Ralph "stormed out of the meeting, " McLaughlin...
...Oklahoma match, Adler and Waldman almost won it all for Harvard in their final doubles match. They were up, 5-2, in the final set but their rivals broke service and eked out a victory on the final point of the tie-breaker. "We relaxed too much when we were ahead but they are not much better," Waldman said...
...second doubles, Katie Ditzler and Patty Wen lost their first set 7-1, but were barely edged out in a tie breaker in the second...
Number four Patty Wenn came the closest to a set victory, losing 7-6 in a tie-breaker first set and then getting whitewashed 6-0 in the final. Janet Clark and May Browne rounded out the nightmare results of the singles matches, Clark losing 6-2, 6-1 and Browne topped...
...dashed it to the ground. In New London, Conn., the element of fire joined the element of wind, raging from 4:30 that afternoon until 11 in the evening. And then there was water-"water, water everywhere," as one witness remembered. By the time the last two-story breaker had crashed over the summer colony of Misquamicut, R.I., only the skeletons of five cottages remained of the 500 houses that had stood there a few hours before...