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...eastern state of Orissa, the C.P. also carried the day. Independent local parties won the elections in the smaller states of Nagaland, Manipur and Pondicherry. Overall, Indira Gandhi had lost some political strength, but she was still clearly the strongest vote-getter in the country...
...biggest laughs comes when the emcee says "Mahsahss'-ah-shits" for Massachusetts. Unfortunately he repeats it another two times. The slapstick is on the same level. A blind blues singer walks into a wall. A drummer bangs his head on a cymbal while taking a bow. A favorite laugh-getter is a kick in the balls during one of the many brawl scenes...
...astonishingly enough, Fitzsimmons is, the Ivy League's top vote-getter in the NCAA- and NAIA-sponsored senior hoopla. Outside of Providence's Marvin Barnes (seventh in the East with 41,820 votes), he is the leading New Englander, a good 10,000 votes ahead of B.C.'s Dan Kulcullen (50th), Holy Cross's Malcolm Moulton (53rd), Dartmouth's Bill Raynor (55th), UMass's Al Skinner (57th) and B.U.'s Kenny Boyd (62nd...
...split will do little good for the Big Red, so the squad really has its work cut out for it. Leading the team into the fray is center Dave Peace, the leading point getter with 28. Bob Murray and Doug Marrett are the leading goal scorers with ten apiece...
With that kind of image, Democrat Robert Docking, 48, was elected to an unprecedented four straight terms as Governor in a traditionally Republican state. A shrewd yet kindly-looking man with warm brown eyes, Bob Docking was such a formidable vote getter that for a time he was unable to decide whether to try for a fifth term this fall or run for the Senate against Incumbent Robert Dole, who had the bad luck to be the Republican national chairman when Watergate broke...