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...Minutemen had been ranked third in New England, behind the University of Rhode Island and Harvard, but they will probably move into second place on the strength of their performance yesterday...
When icicles hang by the wall and blood is nipped and ways be foul, when the Great Lakes freeze into ice packs the size of Rhode Island and shipping is stilled, then folks in the Midwest are moved to fish through the ice, a curious, seasonal madness for which there is no known cure except spring...
...defense was even more bizarre. He claimed that he took the money as part of his own probe of congressional corruption. The charges against him, he testified, were just another attack by the Establishment, which he said has been out to get him ever since he left the Rhode Island orphanage where he was reared. Kelly has served successively as a lawyer in New Port Richey, Fla., an assistant federal prosecutor, Florida state circuit court judge and, finally, as a Congressman for six years. As a judge, he was impeached by the Florida house of representatives in 1963 for "lack...
...criss-crossing her district for 26,000 miles, she won the seat vacated by John Anderson. Former Schoolteacher Marge Roukema knocked off liberal Democrat Andrew Maguire in New Jersey on her second try. And Claudine Schneider, an environmentalist from Narragansett, became the first woman elected to high office in Rhode Island, and the first Republican to go to Congress from there since...
...victory, while Indiana's Lieutenant Governor Robert Orr succeeded his retiring G.O.P. predecessor, Otis Bowen. There was a mild upset in North Dakota, where Republican State Attorney General Allen Olson edged out the incumbent, Democrat Arthur Link. Democratic Governors won re-election in North Carolina, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Utah. In Montana, Democratic Lieutenant Governor Ted Schwinden won the top job after upsetting Governor Thomas Judge in the primary. It may be days before the outcome is known in Puerto Rico, where Statehood Advocate and incumbent Governor Carlos Romero Barcelo finished in a virtual dead heat with former...