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About 8000 antiwar demonstrators last night sparred for several hours with about 300 riot-equipped Boston police outside the Commonwealth Armory, where Pat Nixon was speaking at a Republican fund-raising dinner...
...police, bolstered by six mounted officers, kept the protesters massed on one side of Commonwealth Avenue about 100 yards from the Armory, allowing the 6000 Republican dinner guests to stroll into the building unimpeded...
Only occasionally do the authors rise to a level of generalization unsubstantiated by the details in their study. While even these statements make some intuitive sense, some allegations such as "Women are less likely than men to receive parole," and "Banks in the Commonwealth have made a practice of denying loans and credit to women," are worthy of more attention than they are given in the report. Furthermore, because the study is not (as the authors admit), "a treatise on women and Massachusetts government," the inner dynamics of political processes are not fully explained. For example, is discrimination against women...
...styles: modest Colonial, ample Federal, exuberant Victorian. Indeed, says Frederick Hartt, chairman of the University of Virginia's art department, Green Springs is an "American equivalent" of France's château region or the villa-studded hills outside Florence. So it was here that the Commonwealth of Virginia decided, in its infinite wisdom, to build an $8,000,000, 200-acre concrete prison complex, complete with guard tower...
This was never so much in evidence as at the McGovern Day Gala Wednesday night at the Commonwealth Armory. The crowd was reminiscent of the scene at Woods Hole two years ago. These were the idealists, for whom politics meant lofty discussion of noble ideals, rather than the nitty-gritty of organizational campaigning...