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...hostility to Reagan prompted San Antonio City Councilman Van Archer to complain: "There's just no way in the world I can understand how 200 women who don't shave their legs can claim to speak for the women of America." His remark suggested a poor eye for legs as well as for polls. The women of America, in every social, economic and racial group and in every geographic region, have consistently given President Reagan a poorer performance rating than have men. A New York Times/CBS News poll revealed that among Republicans the discrepancy between...
...charges of Harvard's possible misuse of the money were raised first by Providence Councilman Thomas W. Pearlman, who said three weeks ago that the University has been keeping scholarship money from Providence students. Last night's vote to examine the fund was widely expected...
Responding to charges by a 'Providence, R.I., city councilman that Harvard is squandering a scholarship fund for Rhode Island students here, a University official last week claimed that the councilman "doesn't know what he's talking about...
...Although Councilman Thomas W. Pearlman has accused Harvard of mishandling scholarship money designated for students from his state, has called for a Council investigation, and has threatened a lawsuit against Harvard. University officials have denied all his charges...
Provoked by such incidents, and the prominent display they got almost nightly on TV news last week, more than 40 communities in the U.S. banned Halloween trick-or-treating. "I feel like the Grinch-you know, the one who stole Christmas," said Councilman Paul Sharp of Hammond, La., which enacted a ban. Rhode Island Governor J. Joseph Garrahy urged parents to substitute Halloween house parties for trick-or-treating, and New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean signed a law mandating six months in jail for anyone convicted of contaminating Halloween candy, even if no one was harmed...