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...former Massachusetts attorney-general. He hasn't held office since 1962, when he gave up the attorney-generalship to run against Edward M. Kennedy '54 for the U.S. Senate. He was badly beaten in a convention and primary. A loss this year might force his tightly-knit organization to unravel. To keep it going and to keep himself politically alive McCormack would have to find another office. Boston elects a Mayor in 1968 and McCormack could conceivably try for that if he wanted to challenge Mayor John F. Collins or if Collins wanted to step down...
...have picked the wrong wonders, only that their list is too short. Britain's Stonehenge, says the British-born scientist, is the eighth wonder-a remarkable achievement of primitive man. In a new book, Stonehenge Decoded (Doubleday; $5.95), he explains how he turned to a modern computer to unravel the 3,500-year-old mystery of Salisbury Plain. Stonehenge's long-kept secret, says Hawkins, is that its vast stone slabs and archways make up a sophisticated astronomical observatory...
...week's end, the bargaining between the Guild and the Times was still going on. None of the participants were predicting a quick settlement, but neither were they suggesting a deadlock. No matter what the outcome of the strike, it will hardly begin to unravel the problems of the New York newspaper industry, a complex of highly individualistic newspapers and unions. The newspapers, most of which are losing money, are often as wary of one another as they are of the unions. And the unions are squabbling for survival in a shrinking job market. It will take some long...
Aside from Thanksgiving, the Commencement pageantry which will gradually unravel in the Yard this morning is America's oldest continuous festival; by its forthright uniqueness, it is also one of the most endearing signs of the everlasting Harvard...
...acting," she says, "and for that, one must have a complete, unquestioning rapport. In every role there are situations and attitudes in which I can imagine myself. The rest is a mystery, and I must preserve the mystery. It is the director's mystery, for him to unravel...