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...Massachusetts gubernatorial race, with final unofficial returns giving Endicott Peabody '42 a margin of 2163 votes, Gov. John A. Volpe has begun gathering the 1000 signatures he needs to demand a recount of the ballots...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Margin Dwindles | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

Democrat Endicott Peabody '42 has been elected Governor of Massachutts by a slim, 8000-vote margin, but incumbent Gov. John A. Volpe is virtually certain to demand a recount in one of the closest elections in the state's history...

Author: By Bruce L. Paisner, | Title: Peabody Elected by 8000 Votes; Police Guard Ballots | 11/8/1962 | See Source »

...cause of some of Powell's trouble, Doloris Bridges was defeated for the G.O.P. Senate nomination. The winner, by a bare 1,692 votes out of some 100,000 cast, was middle-road Congressman Perkins Bass, 49. At week's end, Doloris demanded a recount. But recounts hardly ever change the results of an election, and old Styles would have known better than ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Gone Aglimmering | 9/21/1962 | See Source »

Last November, the CCA waged a hard campaign for the retention of PR against the Cambridge Young Democrats, who urged abolition of the controversial system. PR survived a recount, to win by a slim margin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Opposes Rejection of PR | 2/6/1962 | See Source »

...husband's Thanksgiving proclamation had suggested that "the head of each family" should "recount to his children the story of the first New England Thanksgiving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Family Thanksgiving | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

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