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...Associated Press and CBS each showed G.O.P. national committee men-or at least those who responded-preferring Nixon over Romney by 3-to-2 margins. The results, however, may be deceptive. "If you're really undecided and don't want to commit yourself this early," says Rhode Island's G.O.P. Committeeman Bayard Ewing, "what could be safer than being for Nixon...
...from local reserve-unit armories to missile-testing grounds, Defense controls 27,606,219 acres in the United States. It has its biggest holdings in California (4,335,068 acres), its smallest in the District of Columbia (1,672). Its worldwide holdings cover more than the combined areas of Rhode Island, Delaware, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maryland...
...wasn't telling-although he was already talking about building still another boat that would "carry my design theories to the ultimate, and be minutes faster than Dame Pattie." But that would probably have to wait until after next summer's America's Cup races off Rhode Island. In the meantime, Hood is concentrating on more current projects-like trying to figure out why Dame Pattie's mast keeps snapping off. In a race against Gretel two weeks ago, Dame Pattie was leading by 5 min., only 250 yds. from the finish line, when her mast...
...husband, who teaches at Brown University, and I, who teach at the Rhode Island School of Design, are filled with enthusiasm and optimism for your young men and women of the year...
Died. John E. Fogarty, 53, Democratic Congressman from Rhode Island, one of two from the tiny state, known among his colleagues as "Mr. Public Health" during 17 years as chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee dealing with the Departments of Labor, Health, Education and Welfare, who believed that "no American life should be lost because of a lack of research funds," saw to it over the years that literally billions of dollars in federal money were set aside for research into cancer, heart and other diseases; of a heart attack; in his Washington office, shortly before...