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DIED. The Dowager Duchess of Marlborough, 96, American-born widow of England's ninth Duke of Marlborough; in Northampton, England. Friend of Degas, Rilke and Proust-who praised her "magnificence and charm"-the Duchess presided over Blenheim Palace until she and her husband separated in 1933. For the past four decades, she had lived reclusively in a farmhouse with dozens of spaniels...
...Festival--Northampton Fair Grounds from...
Smith? Smith, of all places? Well, it seems that every spring Smith invites four rugby teams to Northampton, offering free room and board, entertainment, and lots of beer--reportedly 27 kegs-- as an incentive to make the long trip west for the Smith Rugby Weekend...
While the town of Northampton imported snow from Buffalo for its winter carnival, Smith College imported squash teams. The result was that the Radcliffe squashers played four matches in two days and came out with a 3-1 record...
...addition, two out of three panelists fault Carter for being fuzzy on the issues. Paul Pizzini, a white-collar worker from Baltimore, likes Carter's fresh face, self-confidence and "Southern-fried charisma" but complained that "he changes his mind." Said Faith Foss, a college professor from Northampton, Mass.: "I think he goes with the wind." Some voters suspect that Carter is deliberately obfuscating. Said Leila Rohde, the wife of a postman in Sun Valley, Ariz.: "He speaks half-truths. He talks like a lawyer, undermining what he said so that you don't know what to believe...