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Cambridge lost only one seat in the House, but lost nothing in the Senate. State Representative Thomas H.D. Mahoney would have had to oppose Rep. Charles F. Flaherty in a head-to-head contest for the combined East Cambridge representative district. Mahoney opted instead to take a sabbatical from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is chairman of the History section of the Humanities Department. "In effect, I'm also taking a sabbatical from politics," Mahoney said...
...test. Somebody calls out that a Taylor California wine has been "judged best," and the announcer purrs: "Taylor California Cellars. Judged better than C.K. Mondavi. Better than Almaden. Better than Inglenook. But when you cost a little more you better be better." And when you come on with such head-to-head comparison promotions in the usually decorous world of wine selling you had better be prepared for lots of flack, not only from competitors but also from the Government. That is what Coca-Cola Co. is discovering...
Since the boats race against the clock rather than head-to-head, the fans never know for sure how their favorites are doing. The complicated seeding system, which combines the previous year's finish for an organization with the Cambridge officials' estimate of speed, often puts fast crews behind slower ones...
Records started to fall, but the big question remained: Were the new American women tough enough to take on the East Germans head-to-head in an actual meet? Last week the young Americans were put to the test in a distant and Olympic-like setting: the World Swimming Championships held in West Berlin...
...head-to-head parliamentary debates, some of which are now nationally broadcast on BBC radio, the Prime Minister has consistently outpointed his Tory challenger. As if in recognition of a tough election fight ahead, Callaghan has begun to launch a few harpoons at his rival. Borrowing from Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel, for example, the Prime Minister has scoffed at Thatcher in the Commons as "Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was every thing by starts, and nothing long." Thatcher, who can indeed be starchy at times, gave an uninspired response to that pointed sally...