Word: rep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Massachusetts political upset, Edward J. King stunned Gov. Michael S. Dukakis in the Democratic gubernatorial primary, garnering 51 per cent of the vote to the Duke's 42 per cent. State Rep. Michael Connally edged Lois M. Pines in the hotly-contested race for Massachusetts Secretary of State...
October also marked the dedication of the newly-built John F. Kennedy School of Government. President Carter and Rep. Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. (D-Mass.), although invited, missed the ceremony...
...education in the federal machinery: (1) the creation of a separate Department of Education; (2) the creation of a Department of Education and Human Services; and (3) uplifting the status of the Education division of HEW. Carter opted for the first alternative. Sen. Abraham Ribicoff (D-Conn.) and Rep. Jack Brooks (D-Tex.) got the ball rolling on Capital Hill, and the fight...
...political nature of the legislation. "It's no secret that this is a political payment on a 1976 promise and a down payment on the 1980 election," says Bruce Wood of the House Subcommittee on Education and Labor." The Department of Education represents the spoils of interest group politics." Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D-N.Y.) observes that the National Education Association--the bill's hardest pushing and most important lobby--never endorsed a presidential candidate until Carter promised he would create a Department of Education. Rep. John N. Erlenborn (R-Ill.) is less kind. "H.R. 13778 is a political payoff...
Culver joins Kennedy in the Senate and Rep. David R. Bowen (D-Miss.) is in the Congress with Beilenson. Updike and Lasch (freshman year roommates) are successful authors. In the academic world, there is Steiner, and George D. Langdon Jr. '54, president of Colgate University, as well as 74 professors, including three at Harvard: Shapiro at the Law School, Walter J. Kaiser, professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Phillip A. Kuhn, professor of History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations...