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With debate deliberately limited by the convention rules, the only minority report adopted by the convention was an innocuous platform amendment promising to loosen Hatch Act restrictions against political activities by Government employees; a similar proposal was passed by the Democratic Congress but vetoed by President Ford. The lack of controversy was less a result of rigid control by the Carter forces than of patient conciliatory efforts by Democratic Chairman Robert Strauss over the past three years and of Carter's own persuasiveness last week. In earnest appearances before restive groups of women, blacks and Latinos, Carter promised each...
...would this machine actually work? The inventor could find out only by risking his own life inside it. One moonlit night last summer, Bushnell and his younger brother Ezra stealthily took the Turtle out into Long Island Sound for its maiden cruise. Squeezing himself through the hatch (the oaken vessel is only 7½ feet high), Bushnell seated himself on a horizontal beam, seized the tiller with one arm, let in water through a valve at his feet and slowly sank beneath the surface. He then maneuvered the ship forward by turning a crank that spins a two-bladed propeller...
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State Rep. Francis W. Hatch Jr. '46 (R-Beverly), the minority leader, said the petition would be a "disaster for the Commonwealth" yesterday in a speech before the House of Representatives...
...Hatch cited figures showing that electric bills for tenants in low-income housing projects with centralized metering would increase by about 27 per cent...