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Because of the trouble in Illinois, Kennedy is playing up the March 25 primaries in New York and Connecticut as the ones to watch. Franks says Kennedy's emphasis on New York as the first major test in a large Northern industrial state is a slight to the people of Illinois. But it may be smart politics. Carter lost New York the last time around, placing an embarrassing fourth behind Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.), Rep. Morris K. Udall (D-Ariz.), and sundry uncommitteds. Once through Illinois and New York, campaign officials are sketchy on strategy...
...recent graduates from the Boston area, had long accepted the church as a major focus of their lives. They came to the two-day gathering with a far more specific goal: to find out what they can do to help the church's world-wide missionary endeavors. Lum, a slight, soft-spoken Hawaiian who is known throughout the American Christian community for her work in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, quickly established the purpose of the conference; describing a "great Christian army" of young people which is now mobilizing in the United States, she detailed its responsibility to confront...
Neither team could open up a lead in the first half, as each came up with four or six straight whenever the other had inched ahead. The half ended with Penn desperately trying to tip in a rebound for at least a slight advantage, but Harvard gutted out that melee, and coach Frank McLaughlin led an upset-minded and pumped up squad off the court...
...embargo are not by any means negligible. Though Soviet citizens are accustomed to deprivation, more meat is one of their basic demands, and one of the major promises that their leaders have made to them. It symbolizes, in a way, the success or failure of the system. A slight decline in Moscow's ability to feed its people will not be a cataclysm, but it will be felt by Soviet citizens...
...centered instead of expansive, narrow-minded instead of broad. These are traits endemic to our race, and not sins, not breaches of conduct, not even very surprising. The worst the authors catch Burger doing is bending a few of the unwritten procedural codes of the court to satisfy his slight meglamania. There is a fascinating three-page description of Burger's tour of the Court facilities on his assumption of office...