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Republican Jim Rhodes has done very well in Ohio politics. He was mayor of Columbus for nearly four terms, and after ten years as state auditor he was picked in 1962 to take on Democratic Governor Mike DiSalle. Take him Rhodes did, by the largest majority ever in an Ohio gubernatorial election. Rhodes' second four-year term is near ly up, and statehouse scuttlebutt has it that the popular and efficient Governor may try for a U.S. Senate seat next year...
...Barricades. Since last fall there have been a series of increasingly bitter street battles in Northern Ireland's two major cities, Belfast and Londonderry, and smaller but equally bloody clashes in villages as well. The latest round of strife began in Londonderry, which is Ulster's second largest city, with a population of 56,000, two-thirds Catholic. Youthful civil rights supporters staged a noon sit-down in the city's center, and a band of taunting Paisleyites appeared. When the youths tried to chase away their tormentors, the Paisleyites responded with stones, waving the Union Jack...
Sophomore Steve Owen, playing in his number six position. had the largest Crimson advantage in the match. He walked off the course after the 16th hole, defeating Steve Light, 4 and 2. Owen, who triple-bogeyed the eighth hole twice during the Greater Boston last Tuesday, scored a birdie 3 on the hole...
...weekend is more than just the largest single social event which is coordinated among undergraduates, and its spirit encompases more than just a compendium of specially scheduled events. It is the impromptu cocktail parties scheduled in the yard during hours of extended parietals. It is actually being at the inevitable, notorious events which accompany the weekend. It's over 1000 people forgetting papers, exam pressures, and jobs. It's a whole class celebrating a spring ritual and soaking up the spontaneous merriment of each moment. The augment this, there are always the normal attractions of Boston, Cambridge, and Harvard...
...industry's rather elaborate public relations effort has been something less than smooth. Manhattan's Hill & Knowlton, the world's largest public relations firm, had been tending the industry's image for 15 years, but it quit a few months ago in disagreement over fundamental tactics. Hill & Knowlton had engineered the defensive, low-profile approach, under which the industry minimized its public involvement in the health controversy. That put the firm at odds with some industry chiefs, who thought that it was time for a more aggressive approach in promoting the case for cigarettes...