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...England's first Queen Elizabeth to make it over for a visit, but by any 16th century standard she was peripatetic. Elizabeth I would set out from London on "royal progresses" through the countryside, prompting an extravagant social frenzy everywhere she stopped. On a typical 1560s tour of Suffolk, one witness wrote, the Queen's hosts laid on "such sumptuous feastings and banquets as seldom in any part of the world hath been seen before." The provincials' Elizabethan party clothes were to die for. "All the velvets and silks that might be laid hands on were taken...
...other half of the 50 seat bus was subsidized by Boston's Suffolk College, which had about 18 students for the trip, one Harvard traveler said Eisenberg said that none of the seven Harvard students was a council member
Pointing to a difference between Monday's and last year's protests, George Caparelli, a sophomore at Suffolk University in Boston and a member of the COPUS executive board, noted that the student aid cuts are less obvious this year because the Reagan Administration has carefully rearranged the great structure. He added, "The proposed cuts would kill the middle class." Another new issue this year is the recent law restricting draft non-registrants from receiving federal aid and loans...
...Dennis J. Kearney '72. The youngest candidate at 33 years of age, the Suffolk County sheriff combines excellent fundraising and organizational skills with a flamboyant campaigning style--his vice-grip handshake is now legendary. Kearney began his political career as a service coordinator at White's East Boston Little City Hall and served as a state representative for East Boston and Charlestown between 1974 and 1977 before his appointment to his present post...
...largest question is whether he will manage to return at least 40 percent of the growth in state revenue, about $150 million, to localities, doubling last year's allotment. Local legislators stress the importance this extra revenue would have for Cambridge. State Sen, George Bachrach (D.Middlesex and Suffolk) noted that Cambridge is still suffering the effects of Proposition 21/2...