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Special elections for the Massachusetts legislature have a way of falling in the middle of the summer--like today's election in Boston and Cambridge to fill a vacant State Senate seat. Most students and well-to-do liberals are away from town on vacation, leaving the election to be decided by a few professional politicians...
...victories of Austick in Ripon and Freud in Ely occurred in well-to-do farming areas formerly considered among the safest Tory seats. To increase their advantage, the Tories called the by-elections so soon after the deaths of the Tory incumbents that one of the bereaved families complained about unseemly haste. In Ripon, the Liberals did not have a phone at their campaign headquarters until two weeks before the vote. In Ely, Freud recalls, "there were 400 sq. mi. of trees already plastered with Conservative posters while I was still waiting to get estimates from my printer...
Adrienne notes regretfully that it will take a long time before the position of inequality alotted women in our society will improve. As a prime example of this, she cites the situation at Harvard and Radcliffe. "Radcliffe girls are a well-to-do, well-educated elite group of women. They are expected to be grateful because they're supposedly getting the same juicy 'carrot' as the men at Harvard. But these equal chances, equal opportunities, this ready acceptance--it's all an illusion and a lie. They're not nearly aware of the ways in which they're being taken...
There was Olive, a well-to-do American and ex-chorus girl; in Warsaw, there was the Harman family-he romanced the two daughters, titillated the mother, excited the son, who was afflicted, as Rubinstein quaintly puts it, "by a chronic physical deficiency which resulted in his inability to make love to a woman." In Paris, a countess eased up to the piano as he was playing Chopin and kissed him square on the lips "with a wild passion," while her husband dozed on the sofa...
...between the city and the airport. By midmorning it had spread to other camps around Beirut and to various sections of the city itself. Nada Khaled Yashruti, 33, the widow of a former Al-Fatah leader, was fatally riddled with twelve bullets as she entered her home in the well-to-do district of Raouche. She had just come from trying to help negotiate a cease-fire with Lebanon's President Suleiman Franjieh. A Lebanese newsman was killed when soldiers raked the offices of the Palestine Liberation Organization in a nearby area...