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...Although Drinan was unopposed in the primary, he had workers at every poll on Tuesday and held a mass rally on primary night in an obvious effort to gear up his campaign for the tough November night. Drinan managed to keep himself in the public spotlight all summer as he served as the vocal leader of the Massachusetts delegation to the Democratic National Convention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hicks, Linsky and Kerry Win in Primary Races | 9/25/1972 | See Source »

...Fourth Congressional District, stretching from Brookline to Gardner, has 42,000 Republicans, 76,000 Democrats and a large swing vote of 82,000 independents. Twenty-three percent of the district is Jewish, with the heaviest concentrations in Brookline and Newton, a Drinan stronghold in the last Congressional race...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hicks, Linsky and Kerry Win in Primary Races | 9/25/1972 | See Source »

...most significant and professional of the three Massachusetts campaigns belongs to Avl Nelson a doctoral candidate in Physics Running in the Republican primary for Robert F. Drinan's congressional seat. Nelson has jumped from complete obscurity to what appears to be a photo finish in the four-way primary on Tuesday...

Author: By Mark C. Frazier, | Title: Harvard Right Makes a Slow Entry Into State Politics | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

...lobbyists concentrated both on persuading Congressmen to co-sponsor the Drinan-Gravel Resolution--which is still frozen in committee-- and on urging undecided, or "swing," senators to vote down the Byrd Amendment to the pending Case-Church Amendment. The Byrd Amendment makes cutoff of Congressional funds contingent upon a ceasefire agreement, and lobbyists felt it greatly weakened the original move. But Washington did some lobbying of its own. Tuesday morning Administration officials, including Presidential Adviser Henry A. Kissinger '50 and Secretary of State William P. Rogers, met with selected "swing" Senators. Tuesday afternoon the Byrd Amendment passed...

Author: By Dorothy A. Lindsay, | Title: Easy to but not Through | 5/19/1972 | See Source »

...congressman, asked his opinion on the Drinan-Gravel resolution, told his constituent, "I'm on a different committee--I don't deal with National Interests...

Author: By Dorothy A. Lindsay, | Title: Easy to but not Through | 5/19/1972 | See Source »

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