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Stone called the Frozen Four a tribute to the hard work of the student-athletes and the great product they can present to the public. The Ivy League’s Carolyn Campbell-McGovern, chair of the NCAA women’s hockey committee, gave Stone a rosy projection of putting 12,000 people into Providence’s Dunkin’ Donuts Center for next year’s Women’s Frozen Four...
DIED. CLARK MACGREGOR, 80, moderate G.O.P. Congressman from Minnesota turned Nixon aide; in Pompano Beach, Fla. As chairman of the Committee to Re-Elect the President just after the Watergate break-in, he oversaw the strategy that led to Nixon's landslide victory over George McGovern in 1972. Never implicated in Watergate, MacGregor later said he had been "misled, deceived ...and lied to repeatedly." After the scandal, he left politics for good...
...Southern elections, and the most encouraging for the Democrats, is the emergence of fresh faces. Perhaps the brightest new light is Arkansas' William Clinton, a Yale Law School graduate and Rhodes scholar, who at 32 will be the nation's youngest Governor in 40 years. He worked on the McGovern and Carter campaigns and used his tenure as attorney general to fight for consumers. He is an anomaly for both Arkansas and 1978. He said he might ask for a state tax increase if food and drugs were exempted from the sales tax; his wife is an ardent feminist...
...fall my father turned 20, he crisscrossed southern Ohio in his Volkswagen trying to save the world. It was 1972, and he was campaigning for George McGovern in the year when McGovern’s presidential bid notoriously carried only Massachusetts...
...Even if McGovern got waxed,” my father says, remembering, “and Watergate was a reminder that he would get waxed, no matter what it took, well, time was on our side. There was a real sense of being on the edge of change...