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Crimson sailors, leading all the way, were caught in the last race by an inspired team from the University of Rhode Island, and had to settle for second place in the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association dinghy championships. However, their position as one of the first two finishers qualifies them for the National Championships to be held on the Charles June...
...those children." Carl Shipley, G.O.P. National Committeeman for the District of Columbia, thought it would be political suicide for Rocky to remarry. "No one is pleased about the impending marriage," he said. "It's got everyone shook up." Mrs. Mary Jackson, Republican National Committeewoman for Rhode Island, a heavily Catholic state, said: "Remarriage would put him in a very bad position here." A Midwestern Republican Governor saw a historical parallel of sorts: "Everybody thought there was only one Prince of Wales who would give up a kingdom for the woman he loved. But maybe we've got another...
...during his childhood and adolescence William James traveled in Europe for prolonged periods. He attended school and was tutored in England, France, Switzerland, and Germany. And, when he thought he might become a professional artist, he was able to study with the renowned painter, W. M. Hunt, in Newport, Rhode Island...
Saturday's race was a tense one from the starting gun. Encumbered by gusty winds, Crimson sailors Carter Ford '63, Mike Horn '63, John Marshall '64, and Dave Gants '64 found themselves locked in a close three-way battle with B.U. and the University of Rhode Island. U.R.I. trailed the two Massachusetts teams with 64 points at the end of the race...
...unkind things have been said about the Tennessee Valley Authority. When the TVA bill was before Congress in 1933, shortly after veterans' benefits were reduced, Rhode Island's Senator Jesse Houghton Metcalf cried: "How on earth can we justify taking a decent living from the soldiers who suffered on the battlefields of France and pour it into the mudholes of Tennessee?" Arizona's Sena tor Barry Goldwater today calls TVA "a giant federal power monopoly-a hoax...