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After he led the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in its vote to cut off covert military aid to Nicaragua last week, Committee Chairman Edward P. Boland, a Massachusetts Democrat, asked House Speaker Tip O'Neill, a fellow Bay Stater, to authorize a closed-door session for the eventual floor debate by the full House. O'Neill happily obliged. The next day, Massachusetts Congressman Edward J. Markey helped dynamite a six-day legislative logjam holding up a House vote on a nuclear-freeze resolution by persuading O'Neill to engineer a virtually unprecedented change in House...
Martin was co-captain of her softball team, an all-leaguer in softball and basketball, and an all-stater in field hockey. In addition, her teammates credited her with MVP distinctions in basketball and field hockey...
...will strain as hard to get $8,500 or more for less prestigious private colleges such as Skidmore or Vanderbilt or Boston University - superb as those institutions are. Here sits a state university that feels like one of those private colleges, at a lower price for an out-of-stater, and in a state where one can become a resident within a year and pay in-state prices for three years...
...seasons past, Harvard covets the dominating 'big guy,' but as in the past, they don't quite have him. The forward front line is solid with three 6-7 frosh--Dave Coatsworth, Kirk Mundy, and Florian Homm. 'Coats' is a burly 230-pounder, Mundy an All-Stater from North Dakota, while Homm hails from West Germany, where he played on the Junior National Basketball team prior to earning All-Michigan honors as an exchange student...
...That was only one confusion in a grotesquely botched election. Voting machines failed to operate, could not be unlocked, were not reprogrammed from last year's municipal elections, even never appeared at polling places. In the Cleveland area, 16 precincts never opened. One out-of-stater snarled: "I don't think Ohio is ready for self-government...