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...Allan Robertson (1915-59), the chief maker and supplier of feathery balls, stitched a spherical bag out of cowhide which was then stuffed with boiled feathers. Enough feathers to fill a top hat were packed into each ball. The unreliable and easily rotted feathery endured until around 1848 when the discovery of gutta percha, an elastic gum found in the forests of Malaysia, sent shock waves through the golf industry...
Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 decisively turned back a challenge from his Republican opponent, Michael S. Robertson '57, who originally tried to run as a candidate of small businessmen, and later as an opponent of busing to achieve school integration. Kennedy's landslide victory nearly equalled that of his first election to a full term in 1964, and he should take that as a mandate to work for the health care and tax reform programs for which he has tirelessly worked in the past and which may finally see enactment under a Democratic Administration and Congress...
Representative Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. also overwhelmingly defeated William A. Barnstead, a candidate who tried unsuccessfully to capitalize on anti-busing sentiment around Boston. Barnstead's tactics and rhetoric were far more strident and divisive than Robertson's, however, and it is encouraging to see that the voters rejected Barnstead's candidacy as well. O'Neill, soon to be elected Speaker of the House, did not emerge from the campaign altogether unscathed. Because of his position of national leadership, O'Neill's record, especially his foreign travel at government expense, has come under increased scrutiny. O'Neill has withstood...
...Robertson, addressing a small group of supporters at the Sheraton Boston Hotel, conceded defeat at 11 p.m. last night, saying that although his effort was a longshot. "I hope the issues we brought up in the campaign will have influence on the political positions Kennedy makes in office...
Members of the well-dressed, martinisipping group applauded sympathetically when Robertson said he had worked hard and had no regrets. After he finished speaking a four-piece Dixie band struck up a rendition of "He's A Jolly Good Fellow" and "Hail, Hail The Gang's All Here...