Word: concordes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...candidates. Chester A. Rudnickl, a master mariner from East Boston, has filed suit in a Concord, N.H., Federal Court to invalidate the primary because voters were not given a list of write-in candidates like himself and Rep. Wilbur Mills...
While Republicans in Concord watched President Nixon's lead grow through the night, a decision in the Democratic race was not as clear. Frontrunners Edmund S. Muskie and George McGovern could both claim victory and both election centers reflected enthusiasm...
Jumping Prices. As legislators at the capitol in Concord battle over whether to institute a state income tax (New Hampshire is the only state without either a general sales or an income tax), there is little that the presidential candidates can say about such local issues. How can they soothe Annette Picard, widow of the police chief of Peterboro, when she complains that her property tax is now $1,000 a year? "I could sell the house and rent an apartment, but I don't want...
...them as pretty amusing. Actually, both men are correct; Muskie has simply succumbed to paronophilia-the inordinate love of puns. Twice in New Hampshire he has assured audiences that the state cannot be taken for granite, and at the state capital he announced to a stunned reporter: "We just Concord the statehouse." At defenseless Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, he counted the house and cracked to his audience: "I can see that things are Coeequal here...
Died. Sinclair Weeks, 78, crack Republican fund raiser who became President Eisenhower's Commerce Secretary; of cerebral arteriosclerosis; in Concord, Mass. The son of a Boston financier, Weeks was a G.O.P. stalwart throughout the party's lean '30s and '40s and served as treasurer of the Republican National Committee during the war. In 1952 Weeks raised $6,000,000 for the campaign. As a Cabinet officer (1953-58), he was best known for his successful advocacy of the Administration's multibillion-dollar highway program and his support of U.S. investments abroad...