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What's happening is that Joe Moakley, who's wanted to be a Congressman for an eternity, finally realized that it's not very possible to beat Louise Day Hicks in a primary. So instead of sitting out the election for the 9th Congressional District as he did for so long, waiting for John McCormack to finish up his 42-year stint in the House of Representatives, or running against Congresswoman Hicks as he did in he primary two years ago. Moakley decided to run this year as an Independent. In a district where almost everybody almost always votes Democratic...
Cornell, in the meantime, is no slouch team. On October 16, the Big Red smashed Lafayette, 16-47 at Ithaca's Moakley Course. The win was the squad's third of the seasons, against no losses...
...November she will face Republican candidate Howard Miller and Boston City Councilman John J. Moakley, who bypassed the Democratic primary to run as an independent in the general election. Because the new district--which extends from Dover St. in Roxbury to Dover, an upper middle class suburb--is heavily Democratic. Miller should not be much of a threat. Moakley, who won last year's City Council race with 94,000 votes, is expected to be a dangerous challenger...
...primary Hicks defeated Moakley by 5000 votes although Moakley claims he would have won if David Nelson, a black candidate, had not divided the anti-Hicks vote...
...record. The Big Red has not met Penn, however. Last Saturday, the Cornell squad downed Army 11-42, Phil Ritson, Don Alexander, Phil Collins and Tim Cahill all broke the tape together for first place. They were timed at 25:22.5 on Cornell's 5.0 mile Moakley course...