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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After graduation he served in the Air Force and then went into business in Massachusetts. He has worked for a tool company, a reinforced paper firm, and a shoe manufacturer, and he ran a heating oil company before retiring to Florida last year with his wife...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Goldfish Swallower Marks Anniversary of First Fish | 3/3/1979 | See Source »

...opponents also conveniently ignore the ratification process, which would block radical change no matter how far afield a convention's amendments ran. It is true that the 1787 convention tossed its agenda aside and offered an entirely new constitution; the states ratified it then because of the apparent weakness of the old Articles. Today there is no widespread sentiment for drastic constitutional revision, and any attempt to try it would be laughed out of the state legislatures...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Invasion of the Budget Snatchers | 3/3/1979 | See Source »

When Steve Rosston '81, with Artson's outspoken support, ran unopposed for vice president a few minutes later, the 60 club members assembled in Science Center B began to suspect the presence of a slate. "It definitely looked incestuous, but it wasn't planned that way at all," Artson said later. Suddenly, what had started as a quiet, almost boring election meeting exploded into a series of shouting matches, with members telling stories of secret meetings, hidden slates, and "freshman conspiracies...

Author: By David E. Sanger, | Title: Democrats in the State of Nature | 3/2/1979 | See Source »

...ineffective as president" and said Driscoll "is a liar if he denies that a slate exists." He later withdrew his comments about Driscoll and nominated him for another position. Stern resigned his position as treasurer last Wednesday, saying he was too busy to do an effective job and "just ran to prove a point...

Author: By David E. Sanger, | Title: Democrats in the State of Nature | 3/2/1979 | See Source »

...Yates explained, "When I started out I was aware that some form of park regulations did exist and endeavored to climb quickly and secretly in the hope that I would be done and out before the rangers became worried or irritated." Unfortunately, before Yates even entered the park he ran into a ranger...

Author: By Anna Simons, | Title: Disobedience a la Thoreau: The Case of Gus Yates | 3/2/1979 | See Source »

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