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...been a godsend for us, a real blessing for the University of Pennsylvania."--Penn hockey coach Bob Crocker...
...figures that show how student voter registration has jumped in Cambridge this year have come as a godsend to David Clem. An urban studies and planning major from MIT and youngest president of the Riverside-Cambridgeport Community Corporation (RCCC) Clem is clearly the youth candidate on the ticket. That doesn't necessarily mean he is inexperienced in Cambridge politics. Although he didn't grow up in Cambridge, Clem is already a fixture in Cambridgeport, where he hopes to cut into incumbent Daniel J. Clinton's home-turf margin. And Clem is not lacking in support from the Harvard Square area...
...second Durkin campaign has benefited only a little from what in other states would be a political godsend--Wyman is presently under investigation by the Justice department for his role as a middleman in the deal to make Mrs. Ruth Farkas ambassador to Luxembourg in return for a six figure contribution to the Committee to Relect the President in 1972. Wyman, who has virtually acknowledged the legitimacy of the charges, has been kept very much on the defensive on this issue, claiming simply, "I don't believe I broke any laws." But polls indicate that New Hampshire voters, who never...
...This conflict is a godsend for the Soviets," said a Western diplomat in Moscow about the Middle East's long no-war, no-peace situation. "If it didn't exist, they would have to invent it." Certainly Moscow has made diplomatic, political and military headway in the Middle East by encouraging unsettled conditions between Israel and the Arab countries. Ever since the U.S. rebuffed Egypt's President Nasser by refusing to sell him weapons in 1955 and, a year later, withdrawing financial aid to build the Aswan High Dam, mammoth development projects and sophisticated Soviet weapons have...
...children's bathing suits and some clothes for herself. A Pittsburgh mother of five says that she cashed her check and used it for food and household supplies-without telling her husband. Detroit Secretary Virginia Donohue is paying for dental work with her rebate. "It's a godsend," she exclaims...