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Harvard also received a pair of third-quarter scores from reserve forward Haven Pell, who lights up all over when he scents a goal in the making and with his shooting knack usually makes...
Steady Blue Eyes. Senator Pell will need every bit of his suavity to answer the challenge-for the colonel is a lady. She is, in fact, Lieut. Colonel Ruth Briggs, 55, a much-bemedaled, widely experienced veteran of 20 years in the WACs, who was enticed out of retirement by Governor Chafee to take a crack at Socialite Pell, 47. Colonel Briggs, her hair swept back from the forehead and braided on top as it has been for the past 20 years, has been lambasting Pell for weeks, touring factories and stores with a firm handshake, steady blue eyes...
Partially because she is not yet widely known, no one gives Colonel Briggs much of a chance to unseat Claiborne Pell. Still, some pretty unusual things have happened to Ruth Briggs in her career-and could happen again. Among the first WACs to be sent overseas, she quickly found herself in charge of a packed lifeboat after her ship was torpedoed in the Mediterranean-and the senior British officer in the lifeboat became seasick. "Being a Rhode Islander," she explains, "I've been around small boats all my life...
...feels that the U.S. should put more effort into winning the Viet Nam war more quickly ("I'm not as scared of China as some people are"), calls for more steps to stop inflation. Moreover, she seems able to throw a continuous barrage of barbs at Claiborne Pell, whom she calls a "curlyheaded croquet player from Newport." Referring to Pell's good looks, she says: "I concede that if the election were on the basis of looks, I would lose. My campaign managers wanted me to do something with my hair, lose 20 lbs. and put some...
Though she plans to wage a man-to-man battle with Claiborne Pell, who so far has kept a discreet silence, Colonel Briggs also has the little extras of her sex going for her. When a woman in a store, mistaking the colonel for a supervisor, asked, "Do you have a lemon squeezer?" Colonel Briggs quickly introduced herself, said: "I have two, and if you can't find one I'll be glad to send you one of mine." And, though the colonel has promised to stick to the issues, she is woman enough to admit that...