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Another contest has perhaps even greater state-wide significance--the fight for control of the Legislature. Never in the history of the Commonwealth have the Democrats held majorities in both the House and the Senate. This year however, they go into the election with a fairly comfortable majority in the House, and trail by the slight margin of 21 to 19 in the Senate...
Three Republican-held Senate seats are in danger. One of these is held by Otto F. Burkhardt (R-Westfield) who defeated Democrat John J. O'Rourke by the scant margin of three votes in 1956. The two are fighting it out again this year, and O'Rourke would seem to have the edge. Two other GOP seats--in Brookline and Newton--are going to the challengers...
...winner of the marathon, held each fall and spring by the Radcliffe Athletic Association, receives 30 points toward possession of the Intramural Cup, won last year by Barnard-Bertram. Dorms in second and third place receive 20 and 10 points, respectively, toward...
Coexistence with Russia will be the theme of a student conference to be held Friday and Saturday at the Harvard Epworth Memorial Church...
...tiny holes in a pipe. Some lay on their bellies and sucked air for 43 hours. Help eventually found them, and 88 in all, I think--88 who had been designated for celestial honors by the boys at the head of the shaft--emerged into daylight with their heads held high...