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...RHODE ISLAND. The candidate who accomplished the most with the least amount of help undoubtedly was an ingenuous and indefatigable maverick named Edward P. Beard, 34, who upset Democratic Congressman Robert Tiernan. The party's man and a nine-year congressional veteran, Tiernan was so confident that he did not even bother to campaign until the last two weeks...
...running flat-out, exploiting the same beguiling tactics that had created a wellspring of voter support and vaulted him into the state legislature in 1972. Beard used a few radio spots-written by himself #151;but mainly he walked around shaking hands and displaying homemade campaign signs. He stumped Rhode Island's crowded beaches so diligently that sunburn sidelined him for a few days. "I'm nobody's man but the people's," Beard would say, proclaiming his honesty, his solidarity with his fellow workingman and his interest in the plight of the elderly...
While the crews of Courageous and Southern Cross battled for the America's Cup in Rhode Island Sound, members of the Newport Reading Room were embroiled in a teapot-sized tiff of their own. As a story by Reporter Sally Quinn in the Washington Post had it, New York Senator Jacob Javits, who is Jewish, and his wife Marion were all but tossed out of the tony old club when they arrived for a prerace dance as guests of Nuala and Claiborne Pell, Rhode Island's Democratic Senator. Quinn's intimations of anti-Semitism raised speedy protests...
From an early age, Nelson was a different kind of Rockefeller, more outgoing, less cost-conscious than his four brothers. While they tended to reflect their father John D. Jr., a shy philanthropist and devout Baptist, Nelson was closer to his mother Abby, the daughter of the powerful Rhode Island Senator Nelson Aldrich. It was Abby who imbued her son with a tender social conscience and a lifelong love...
...Providence & Worcester Railroad is a tiny (50 workers, 75 miles of track) Rhode Island freight hauler that has been beset by more problems than "the little engine that could" of children's fiction. In the past ten years, the giant Penn Central has tried to squeeze it off the tracks, it has lost seemingly do-or-die battles before both the Interstate Commerce Commission and the U.S. Supreme Court, and it has had to tough out an uphill struggle to survive on its own after years of being operated under lease. Today the line appears to be chugging toward...