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...good news came to the city when figures released by the state in its annual "cherry sheet" showed a $963,913 difference between this year's payments to the Commonwealth and last year's. As a result, the city's total contribution to the state treasury will be $1.3 million...
Whatever the case, the real mistake of 1976 was not made by Jack Walsh, Birch Bayh, or me. It was made by the Democratic voters and non-voters in this allegedly progressive commonwealth. That they did not vote for Birch Bayh is forgiveable; that the Democratic conservatives outpolled the liberals by close to a 60 to 40 per cent margin is not. Between them, Bayh, Harris, Udall, Shriver and Shapp received 37.9 per cent of the vote in a state in which Democrats usually favor the liberals by 20 percentage points. Fifty-eight per cent of the vote went...
...Harvard Square station, David Hershey-Webb ("pretentious name," he apologized) told me has cut short a planned evening of guitar-playing, singing and coin-collecting in front of the Coop to go to a party at the Commonwealth School, a progressive private school in a Back Bay townhouse. "I went to school there last year, and I'm going to go there again next year," Hershey-Webb said. "This year I'm taking a sabbatical at a Boston public high school so I won't be a private schoolie like her." He pointed to the girl sitting next...
...compromise was reached on Thursday night between Van Delft and LRI president Marshall J. Smith with the provision that the warehouse would remain within "commuting distance" of its present location on Commonwealth Ave. "unless there are unforeseen or unexpected circumstances...
...Callahan's choice of Commonwealth Avenue instead of Soldier's Field Road as the site of his hockey education was borne out virtually every step of the way last night, as the Terriers overwhelmed Harvard in every phase of the game to win by an impressive 8-4 count and advance into tonight's finals...