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...Rebekah Baines Johnson, brought her first-born for the youngsters to admire. It was Lyndon. Mrs. Gliddon was in the Johnson home one night when the father, Sam Ealy Johnson, lined all the kids up in front of the fireplace and made them speak on a chosen subject. Lyndon shone...
...reference to the effort by some Tories to capitalize on anti-Quebec feelings generated among English-speaking voters. But Trudeau's charge was so ill-timed and ill-tempered that it left some of his party colleagues shaking their heads in dismay. Stanfield, normally a dull public speaker, shone by comparison. When a fellow Tory heckled Trudeau about trying to change his image, Stanfield interjected with a sly allusion to government statistics on unemployment: "Oh, he's the same Prime Minister-seasonally adjusted." Even Trudeau had to chuckle at that...
Whatever his flaws and virtues, Kennedy now stands for what the party thinks it needs: a figure who can appeal to most Democrats across the party spectrum, a man with a knack for politics who shone in a campaign where that quality was disastrously lacking. If Ted Kennedy falters or falls short somewhere along the line, the Democrats will have to find or invent someone like him to try to carry them to victory four years hence...
After an invocation by His Eminence, Beth I. Best '47, president of the Radcliffe Alumnae Association, and Lynn Sakai '73, president of the Radcliffe senior class, greeted the guests. The Radcliffe Choral Society sang, as the sun shone for the first time since the national election a week and a half...
...eighth annual Head of the Charles Regatta on Sunday provided a mixture of pleasant and not-so-pleasant surprises for Harvard crews: The lightweight shone the heavyweights placed well. Radcliffe was upset, and the combined Harvard effort won the Paul Revere Trophy for the overall championship with a record 432.7 point total...