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Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) is still ten representatives short of a full 38-woman legislature but plans to fill the vacancies by a combination of appointments and special elections, Jennifer R. Levin '80, RUS President, said yesterday...
MINNESOTA. Democrat Wendell Anderson, 45, was a popular Governor from 1971 to 1976, but then he made the mistake of arranging his own appointment to fill Walter Mondale's vacant Senate seat. It was a self-serving act that angered Minnesotans, and many of them have never forgiven Anderson, even though he apologized in a series of TV ads. At the same time, Anderson's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party has been badly split by conservative Businessman Robert Short's upset primary victory over liberal Congressman Donald Fraser in the race for the Senate seat formerly held...
...chain of home-improvement franchises. Boschwitz is making his first bid for public office but has been widely known to Minnesotans for years because of his firm's zany advertising campaigns. They included such one-liners as KEEP BULLFIGHTING OUT OF MINNESOTA and UNITE THE TWIN CITIES-FILL IN THE MISSISSIPPI...
They also fill many jobs that nobody else wants, even in a period of high unemployment. Farmers near Presidio, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley, learned that lesson while cooperating with a local INS crackdown on undocumented laborers from the nearby Mexican town of Ojinaga. The growers took out newspaper advertisements requesting 4,000 domestic agricultural workers at the minimum farm wage of $2.20 an hour. They got 300 replies. Finally the growers were allowed by the INS to import the help they needed ?from Ojinaga...
Emphasizing what he called a "growing concern about increased government regulation," Bok described Harvard's work to augment public policy learning as "an effort to fill the missing link in higher education...