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...years ago. Drinan, a talkative abase dean of the Boston College Law School challenged 12-year member Rep. Philip J. Philbin for the Democratic nomination in what was then Massachusetts's Third Congressional District Running on the wave of 1970's Kent State Cambodia uprisings. Drinan's issue was the war, and beyond that support for the administration. Philbin the second ranking Democrat on Mendel Rivers's House Armed Services Committee was a long-time hawk and administration supporter, Drinan wasn...
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...
...Because of a shortage of parks, the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Chicago now allows bicycling and sometimes baseball in the graveyards it maintains. At Mount Carmel there is a lake stocked with fish for local anglers. Although the idea came from people who bicycled to visit family plots, John Philbin, director of the archdiocesan cemeteries, admits that "some of the lot holders are uptight." Yet most of them relax once they realize that gamboling does not take place on the graves...
...hopelessly naive "screamers." His success in avoiding this stereotype was attested one day this summer when a union official whose local covered plants in both the 3rd and 12th districts told him, "That fucking priest Drinan is out of his mind," and asked if Studds wanted Representative Phillip Philbin to campaign...
Complete unofficial returns showed Drinan ahead with 64,716 votes, while McGlennon trailed with 61,129. Philbin, who ran a write-in campaign, brought up the rear with...