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Other election workers spent yesterday certifying the results of Wednesday's first count of the returns for the city council election Four Candidates--incumbents Walter J. Sullivan. Saundra Graham, Alfred E. Vellucci, and challenger Alice Wolf--reached the quote of 2865 votes necessary to win one of the nine seats...
Workers will complete the certification today, then begin transferring the surplus of those four contenders to other candidates in Cambridge's complicated system of proportional representation. Others will begin the first count in the school committee race...
...week's end the count stood at 229 dead and 81 wounded. It was the highest number of American casualties in a single day since Jan. 13, 1968, when 246 servicemen were killed throughout Viet Nam at the start of the Tet offensive. In the heart of West Beirut, about two miles from the airport, searchers hunted through the remains of a nine-story building housing French paratroopers that had been hit minutes after the airport bombing; the French toll was 56 dead, with two missing and 15 injured...
...most Americans, the horrifying thing about the news from Lebanon was the number of Marines lost, the gross body count. But for more than 200 sets of loved ones, the Beirut explosion was only incidentally a massacre; for them, one particular casualty-the son, husband, brother, buddy-made the week's bad news an ordeal. The families and friends of four victims spoke with TIME last week...
...with sinking disappointment that I eyed the latest arrival along Mt. Auburn St., Gelateria Giuseppe. Translated that means sugar, and butterfat and crunch wafer cones--is this beginning to sound familiar? At my count, that brings to nine the number of ice cream emporiums a cone's throw from the Harvard T stop. What are they bringing into a world already complicated by oatmeal cookie vs. pina colada...