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...headlines for worthy toastees, borrowed (like Sullivan) a few names from friends and wove them into Sullivanian tetrameter. Angell-a short-story writer, bestselling baseball author (The Summer Game) and stepson of E.B. White-aims good cheer at "Helmut Schmidt, Kenneth Tynan/ And the Rev. Rep. (D., Mass.) Robert Drinan, " and offers "A puppy each for Stacy Reach/ And Marvellous Nadia Comaneci." He exhorts: "Come, Willie Morris! Come, Maury Wills/ Make with the tonsils for Beverly Sills, "and wishes that "the new year lay good Karma/ On our White House-tenant farmer...
...only close race for a Massachusetts Congressional seat, Democratic Representative Robert F. Drinan of Newton defeated a Republican who had challenged Drinan's record on economic issues. Drinan's victory is encouraging, for it shows taht a politician like Drinan who displayed courage on moral issues such as Vietnam and the impeachment of former President Nixon, can still win re-election once the heated controversy of those issues has passed...
MASSACHUSETTS. Fourth Congressional District-Incumbent Robert Drinan (D) v. Arthur Mason (R): Jesuit Priest Drinan expected to win-narrowly...
...Drinan said he will concentrate heavily on international affairs in the next two years, in contrast to his focusing in the past on domestic issues...
Throughout the night Mason and his spokesmen insisted that Drinan's large leads in Brookline and Newton were anticipated, and that late returns from western towns using paper ballots could produce a reversal in the final tally...