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Recently TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil followed Congressman O'Neill as he took what he calls his "ethnic walk" through home-town Cambridge, sampling opinion while simultaneously wooing votes. As he has every Saturday for years, he stopped at his Chinese laundryman's to pick up the shirts that his wife Millie had left earlier in the week, visited his Italian shoemaker, his barber, and half a dozen other shopkeepers...
...largest was $4,500 to the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association in 1970. Many of the organizations that benefited from a Nixon gift were religious. Besides the Graham donation and a $1,000 donation to the Baptist Community Hospital in 1970, Nixon gave $1,000 to his home-town East Whittier Friends Church...
Going into the fourth Sunday of the season, the Atlanta Falcons had lost two consecutive games without scoring a single touchdown. They seemed to be on the brink of disintegration. The San Francisco 49ers were winning 10-0, and now a disgruntled home-town crowd had to watch the embarrassing spectacle of two Falcons-Fullback Art Malone and Tight End Jim Mitchell-angrily slapping each other around after a muffed play. The fight symbolized the Falcons' frustration better than any statistics of futility on offense or defense...
...closer to baseball's grandest alltime record: Babe Ruth's 714 home runs. As the suspense mounted, Aaron denied that pitchers were helping him out in his effort to break the record: "I don't even get balls down the middle in batting practice any more." Aaron, 39, said that even if he does hit No. 715 this year he will play next year. But the 1974 season will be his last. Meanwhile, Aaron plans to marry one of his home-town fans. Billye Williams, 36, a widow with a daughter, 6, met Aaron when she interviewed...
...grass and gray skies failed to keep 70,000 of her ecstatic home-town fans from Manhattan's Central Park when the reclusive Queen of Rock gave one of her rare concerts, and a free one at that. Her face scrubbed shiny and her hair short and curly, Carole King, 30, wore blue jeans like most of her audience and sang old favorites from Tapestry, the best-selling LP in rock his tory, as well as her new song Fantasy: "Our reality will be as good as never-never land...