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...first woman to head the Atomic Energy Commission, became the second woman in U.S. political history to win a Statehouse without having a husband who preceded her (the other is Connecticut's Ella Grasso).* Democrat Ray edged out her Republican opponent, County Executive John Spellman, 49, by about 125,000 votes...
...neophyte, was a surprise winner of last September's Democratic primary. Ray, a small, chunky woman who lives with two dogs in a pre-fab home on an island, waged an energetic, 18-hour-a-day campaign on a skimpy budget to defeat the less colorful, pipe-smoking Spellman. As Governor, Ray is expected to pursue a generally conservative course, trimming the state budget and considering an income tax to replace other levies if the need arises. Predictably, she favors development of nuclear energy and revising upward the limits on the size of oil tankers on Puget Sound...
With the departure of A.B. Spellman, lecturer in Afro-American Studies, the Afro department has no one on its faculty knowledgeable in Afro-American musical biography or the development of the black musical avant garde. Many schools throughout the nation see these musical and historical aspects of jazz as subjects for academic scrutiny...
Shirley M. McBay, professor of Mathematics at Spellman College, spoke on the need to increase black representation in the natural sciences...
...Spellman may not have created a big wave here with his departure. But in the short time that he was here, Spellman exposed Harvard to an important part of American society; his departure means that this area will once again be ignored...