Word: edward
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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...
...also significant to note that Gov. Edward J. King, who openly embraced supply side economics and who was known as Ronald Reagan's favorite Democratic governor, lost in the September Democratic primary by a mere six percentage points. Indeed, polls indicated that it was his brush with corruption, not conservative economics, that provided the margin of defeat. At the same time, John W. Sears '52, the Republican gubernatorial candidate, stayed noticeably silent on the Reagan program, but was buried in the general election by 20 percentage points...
...relevance is a renewed emphasis on non-fiction. Although it began as a forum for student opinion and debate, the Advocate has over the years moved increasingly towards a "pure art for art's sake" approach. In "First Flowering. The Best of the Harvard Advocate," editor Edward Smoley describes the gradual withdrawal from issues of university-wide relevance that post-World War II board members effected. "The Advocate editors were becoming a literary clique, the magazine their house organ. They showed little interest in student affairs," he writes. During the 60s and 70s, the emphasis shifted towards more artwork...
...Richard G. Lugar (R) IOWA Terry Branstad (R) No Race KAN. John Carlin (D) No Race KY. No Race No Race LA. No Race No Race ME. Joseph E. Brennan (D) George J. Mitchell (D) MD. Harry R. Hughes (D) Paul S. Sarbanes (D) MASS. Michael S. Dukakis (D) Edward M. Kennedy (D) MICH. James J. Blanchard (D) Donald W. Riegle Jr. (D) MINN. Rudy Perpich (D) David Durenberger (R) MISS. No Race John C. Stennis (D) MO. No Race John C. Danforth (R) MONT. No Race John Melcher (D) NEB. Bob Kerrey (D) Edward Zorinsky (D) NEV. Richard Bryan...
...succeed New York Gov. Hugh Carey, the Democratic pols were laughing this summer. New York would be the only state to have had governors Hughie, Dewey, and Lewie. But those same Democratic pols were the ones laughing this summer at the thought that anyone could beat New York Mayor Edward I. Koch in a Democratic gubernatorial primary. They're not laughing anymore...