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...week before, in Minnesota, during the Senate's Easter recess, Humphrey had been prepared for no such sudden crisis. He did not expect Carter to win so resoundingly in Pennsylvania. Flying around Minnesota to speak at his party's district nominating conventions, Humphrey raised the rafters as he tore into Gerald Ford. It was like being at a prizefight; oldtimers said that Humphrey had never sounded better, and that pleased him. In his speeches, Humphrey's final line always brought his audience cheering to its feet. If his party wanted him as its nominee, he told them...
...fashionable ballrooms of Pennsylvania, the three most active Democratic candidates last week at times seemed peckish and anxious. All have drastically had to chop their spending and personally phone likely contributors for more aid. Congress had put them in the bind by unconscionably taking off for an Easter recess before a law reviving federal campaign subsidies could be passed (TIME, April 12). And all three were worried that they faced varying degrees of loss in the state...
Cornell opened its season by smashing Adelphi, 24-8. In case you don't remember, that's the same Adelphi that Harvard edged by only two goals over spring recess. Cornell went on the stomp UMass, 22-10. Last week the Minutemen established themselves as the best team in New England, beating Brown, 15-10. Harvard is light years behind those two squads...
...young varsity lacrosse team turned in a surprisingly strong performance over the spring recess, sweeping past its first three opponents before bowing to fifth-ranked Hofstra...
...similar crime occurred in Quincy House after Christmass recess, when camera equipment worth $300 was stolen from a room down the hall from Reinig's, he said...