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Phillips Brooks House has agreed to join forces with the Commonwealth Service Corps of Massachusetts in establishing college campus volunteer programs throughout the state...
Since last March, Dej has been trying to avoid a complete Sino-Soviet rupture, while believing that a complete rapprochement is neither possible nor desirable. Dej wants an amorphous Communist "commonwealth" in which Peking would provide steady ideological opposition to Moscow, thus permitting individual nations like Rumania to maneuver between the two poles. To show his continued independence, Dej himself stayed away from last week's Moscow meeting, instead sent Premier Ion Gheorghe Maurer, his glad-handing traveling...
...election of the trustworthy candidate, former Governor Volpe, does not necessarily promise a real revolution in the Commonwealth's political morals. The first 22 months of his first term, until he lost the election, were marked by unusual if colorless honesty, but in the mad scramble afterwards by his supporters and staff to get jobs before the Democrats took over, he did little to distinguish himself. The Democratic Governor's Council, uncertain of its relations with the new Governor, Chub Peabody, and anxious to get his friends into office, was more than cooperative in making deals with Volpe...
Volpe's unexpected triumph proves that, at the top of the ticket anyway, the Commonwealth's electorate can distinguish Barry Goldwater from native Republicans--a million voters split their tickets for Johnson and Volpe. Brooke's victory also demonstrates that, at least in theory, the voters are against sin and corruption (though they re-elected the two indicted Councilors and the felon running for the General Court...
...there were any doubt that the Commonwealth's ways would be changed, it was dispelled the day after the election in Wellfleet, a charming Cape Cod summer community. For his part in the construction of some harbor improvements, Deputy Sheriff Lawrence Gardinier was convicted on eight counts of larceny and adjudged "a common and notorious thief...