Word: melvins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Over 50,000 new voters--about 20,000 of them minorities--have been registered in the course of the campaign, largely the result of a new voter drive undertaken in conjunction with candidate Melvin H. King's camp...
...Another reason is the increase in Black success locally--in 1981, the first Black person was elected to the Boston city council since 1968, and for the first time ever two Blacks made it to the school committee. This year, there is the credible mayoral candidacy of a Black, Melvin H. King. "I want to see my people in there," said Roxbury resident Keith Pard after registering to vote." "I always felt Boston was a racist city. "I'm sure King won't be racist," explained Charles Dromauer of Mattapan...
With only five days remaining until the preliminary Boston mayoral election, a group of Harvard students is gearing up to push Black candidate Melvin H. King into the lead...
...their telescopes to the path in the skies where he had said his planet would be moving. The night of last Jan. 21, Clyde W. Tombaugh, 24, an assistant at the observatory, saw a strange blotch of light on a new plate. He hastily took the photograph to Vesto Melvin Slipher, director of the observatory. They were quite excited. Here visibly was Percival Lowell's proof. Night after night they rephotographed the planet. Pictures showed that it moved slightly in the same direction as the other planets. This was additional proof. They might have shouted out their find...
...Harvard students gathered in the Freshman Union last night to express support for Boston mayoral candidate Melvin H. King...