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Ohio's anti-Di Salle vote swept Robert E. Cook out of office and brought in a mother-son team. Cook was beaten by Republican Oliver Payne Bolton, 45, a wealthy Cleveland-area publisher whose mother, Frances Payne Bolton, 77, was re-elected to her twelfth full term. A shift toward the right in Utah dislodged M. Blaine Peterson, who plugged the welfare state and was replaced by Professor Laurence J. Burton, 35, who attacked big Government and big taxes...
Born. To Hugh Leo Carey, 43, Democratic Congressman from Brooklyn, Capitol Hill's champion father, and his wife Helen, 38: their twelfth child, seventh boy; in Brooklyn...
...other Harvard runners, Jack Darcy ran 26:17 to come in seventh and Dick Hawkins ran 26:25 for twelfth...
Harvard accomplished its narrow victory by taking second, third, fourth, seventh, and twelfth places. Sophomore Bill Crane, who placed second with 25:28, was the surprise of the afternoon. The low man in the Crimson's trio of top runners, he had previously turned in far slower times...
...experiment at Middletown High School, near Newport, R.I., is just beginning its second year. Anywhere else. Middletown's 1,271 youngsters, mostly children of employees and servicemen of the nearby naval base, would be labeled seventh-to twelfth-graders. But Middletown has banished grades as well as failure and promotion. Instead, subjects are broken into small-step "concepts'' to be mastered over a six-year period. A student may plod in math while simultaneously flying ahead in English. For dullards, it may take seven years to get a diploma. Whippets can finish in five years. Sidney...