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William R. Grant, education writer for the Detroit Free Press, and Michael J. Kirk, public affairs director for Seattle television station KCTS will also spend next year at Harvard, as will Lynda M. McDonnel, a business and labor reporter for the Minneapolis Tribune, and Judith Nichol, Maryland editor of the Washington Post...
...Massachusetts political upset, Edward J. King stunned Gov. Michael S. Dukakis in the Democratic gubernatorial primary, garnering 51 per cent of the vote to the Duke's 42 per cent. State Rep. Michael Connally edged Lois M. Pines in the hotly-contested race for Massachusetts Secretary of State...
...real world. President Carter came to Lynn to campaign for Paul E. Tsongas and to try to avoid associating himself with Edward J. King. Despite Carter's snub, King won the gubernatorial race, joining Tsongas in the Democratic sweep...
February was a month for small changes at Harvard, in Cambridge, and around the Bay State. While Vietnam and China battled it out in Southeast Asia, Gov. Edward J. King and Massachusetts college students slugged it out at the State House. The issue? Hiking the state's drinking age enough to keep freshmen and sophomores sober. Proposals ranged from a flat 21-year drinking age to one plan allowing 18-year-olds to drink in bars, 20-year-olds to buy wine and beer at liquor stores, and 21-year-olds to pursue any liquid vice they wished...
...another controversy in March over the issue of the University's investments in corporations operating in South Africa. Ninety-three Faculty members signed a petition calling on the University to divest of its South Africa-related investments, and many spoke out against University policy at a Faculty meeting. Kenneth J. Arrow, departing Conant University Professor, said in a letter to the Faculty Council that the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) last year overestimated the cost of divestiture of stock in companies doing business in South Africa. The ACSR said the costs of divestiture would range from $4.7 million...