The nation's highest labor relations review organization will this spring review charges that Harvard tampered with a union election in the Medical Area last year. The National Labor Relations Board agrees to examine only 10 percent of the cases appealed to it, and if Harvard is found guilty of interfering in the election a new one will have to be held.

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Who won last weekend's ward caucuses? It depends on whom you talk with. Former governor Michael S. Dukakis, who taught at the Kennedy School until last semester was of course claiming victory as all sides acknowledged he had received the support of at least 60 percent of the delegates elected. Gov. Edward J. King was also claiming a victory of sorts as he got somewhere between 20 and 30 percent, higher than the 15 percent he said he was shooting for, Lt. Gov. Thomas P. O'Neill, the only candidate not insisting he had won, was hard-pressed just to say he hadn't lost. With most observers allowing him only 5 to 10 percent, his campaign seems on the skid. In any event, all 3000 delegates selected will go to Springfield May 22 to suggest a Democratic gubernatorial nominee. The voice of the convention, however, is not binding. The official nominee will be decided in September by the primary.

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"You gotta love that guy," a few students say about Mr. Test, the rain-or-shine Mem Hall test proctor who is known for joking and coughing over the speakers during exams. But one student complained last week that Mr. Test maltreated him when he tried to cancel his score on a Graduate Record Exam.

Howard Reinheimer, a Tufts senior, said Mr. Test approached him after the exam, waving his test form and telling him he had to fill in his name and couldn't cancel his score on the verbal section. Reinheimer said he ripped up his exam and then panicked as Mr. Test allegedly threatened to blacklist him with the Educational Testing Service (ETS).

"I saw my graduate school days going down the drain," Reinheimer gulped.

Mr. Test says Reinheimer failed to follow the exam directions and was "really out of line."

The outcome? Reinheimer cancelled his score with ETS, and a friend of his, Paul Perkins '83, sent a letter to ETS complaining about Mr. Test.

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In the past, Harvard students have had to venture a few hundred yards down Mass. Ave. in order to pick up a bagel for Sunday brunch. But starting soon, students will be able to get their munchies even closer to home.

Harvard Student Agencies (HSA)--already well-known for its bartending course with labs--will begin delivering bagels with or without cream cheese to students on Sunday mornings between 7 and 10 a.m. The service will continue for a ten week period and will begin next week if there are enough orders.

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Councilor Daniel Clinton, a newly elected Independent, let the cat out of the bag before the official start of last week's city council meeting: senior councilor Alfred E. Vellucci had successfully lobbied enough votes to be elected mayor. Clinton signalled the end to the mayoral stalemate by saying that the council could look forward to an ample supply of Italian delicacies during the next year. He's probably right, because Vellucci is admired not only for his political finesse, but also for his special Italian recipes.

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Buzzwords were back in action at the city council meeting last week. But Councilor Francis H. Duehay '55 couldn't fool anyone with his substitution of "adjustment" for over-ride or bypass. The council is currently contemplating a popular referendum that would allow the city relief from continued budget reductions due to Proposition 2 1/2, and the councilors are understandably concerned that voters may be reluctant to throw away future tax cuts. Apparently Duehay feels an "adjustment" will be easier for the voters to approve than an "over-ride." Thursday night, however, his linguistic gymnastics prompted loud chuckles from most of the audience.

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Making his first public comment Thursday on the specific structure of the new Foundation for race relations, the director of the agency said that his plans are "tremendously" curtailed by a shortage of adequate funding.

S. Allen Counter, associate professor of neuroscience at the Medical School, said that during the last six months he has been discussing the mechanics of the Foundation with interested students, but that the new agency is now "operating on a shoe string budget."

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Supreme Court Justice SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR has refused an invitation to deliver the 1982 Class Day address but will preside over the Law School's Ames Moot Court competition next fall.

O'Connor turned down the Class Day invitation because "she has been flooded with invitations and can't accept as many as she'd like to," the justice's appointments secretary said last week.

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Henry A. Kissinger '50 described himself as "relaxed and confident" as the former secretary of state prepared to undergo open heart surgery at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital last Thursday. He had initially entered the hospital complaining of acute shoulder pains.

No difficulties hindered the four-and-a-half hour operation in which doctors performed a coronary triple bypass. Doctors afterwards compared the danger involved in Kissinger's operation to that involved in a gallbladder operation. The only other operation Kissinger had undergone was an appendectomy 25 years ago.

Kissinger, former advisor to many presidents and former professor of Government at Harvard, said before his operation that he will negotiate his recovery period with the doctors.

They've been mumbling about my weight," he said while doctors confirmed that the 55-year-old Nobel Peace Price winner will have to lose 18 to 20 pound in addition to severely curtailing his activities for the next weeks.