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McNamara's soulmate, Walpole businessman Ray Shamie, used almost $1 million of his own income to battle Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), and he failed to make a dent in the presidential aspirant's popularity. Rep. Margaret Heckler (R-Mass.) lost the seat she has held for eight terms. In the state legislature, Democrats added to their already lopsided majorities in both houses. They now control the House 131 to 29 and the Senate...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Elephantiasis | 11/5/1982 | See Source »

...hustle as they would for 90 minutes, Harvard could not dent the Brown net, missing high or wide on several good opportunities in both halves...

Author: By L. JOSEPH Garcia, | Title: Brown Blanks Crimson Booters, 3-0 | 11/1/1982 | See Source »

Shoot Out the Lights does not get heavy air play or make a dent in the charts-pitiless clarity not being a commodity eagerly sought in the Top 40-but it receives reverential notices. It also gets the Thompsons to America, Richard's first real visit in ten years, Linda's first ever. Their appearances become events. They are rites of passage for novitiates, acts of communion for initiates. The Thompsons in performance put on shows of acetylene brilliance, but these events for them are something else entirely. They are an ending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Songs of Sad Experience | 8/30/1982 | See Source »

These doubts about day care can put a crimp in the family future, and a dent in the budget, but they do not, as Schlafly might have us believe, atomize the American nuclear family. The quality of the day care and its basing near the job may come a little closer to a workable solution. In Massachusetts both Wang Laboratories, Inc., and Stride Rite Corp. have inaugurated model projects with long waiting lists of applicants. Stride Rite's program also includes the options of dental care and psychotherapy. Adjustments made to work schedules, so-called

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Long Till Equality? | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

Fearful of sharp voter reaction because of their failure to dent the deficit, growing numbers of Congressmen, as well as Reagan himself, have begun lining up behind the idea of a constitutional balanced-budget amendment that would presumably force fiscal responsibility upon them. Bills have already been introduced in both houses, and the Senate takes up debate on its version this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Growing Mood of Dismay | 7/5/1982 | See Source »

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