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Helped by unprecedented amounts of money, mostly from Newton liberals, a brilliant, computerized campaign organization, thousands of young volunteers, and rain on Primary day Drinan produced one of the most starting upsets in Massachusetts political history, defeating Philbin in a close race. He then went on to defeat Republican moderate John McGlennon, and a Philbin write-in campaign, in a three-way race for the Congressional seat...
Also in the race in the all-new Fourth Congressional District is Newton conservative John T. Collins, a political new comer who argues. "Those two are like 'tweedledee' and 'tweedledum.' I can't believe more than half the people in the District are that liberal...
...finished second in the regatta which also included teams from Yale, Jackson, Connecticut College, Newton College and Stonehill...
Linsky, who is Jewish, could sway many of the Drinan supporters in these two towns where he did very well in Tuesday's primary. In a poll taken by the Linsky staff last April. Drinan only held a ten point lead. In Brookline and Newton, the polls showed that both candidates had a third of the vote with the remainder undecided...
...black candidates fared poorly in the race. Newton resident Hubert H. Jones, the most liberal of the candidates, placed fourth with 8068 votes, largely outdistancing Melvin Miller, publisher of the Bay State Banner, who received 1592 votes...