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...official scorer sounds this automobile horn to bring the teams out of their dressing rooms. Hart and I go downstairs to watch Tech and its coach, Bob Martell, with whom both Hart and I have had disagreements, hurry by. There's Kenny Cusack, number five; and Freddy, Freddy Ahern, the star, number six: Jimmy Riley, Chucky Carrigan. Dee Conroy, all of them stomp by their mouths set, walking up the passageway and Conroy, the goalie, steps onto the ice and the Tech stands explode...
...scorer hits the horn again, and now all the substitutes skate over to the benches, and Martell gathers the studs, his six starters, around him for a little talk. Then they break, and Ahern and Delisle skate back to defense, and Carrigan, Riley and Cusack cruise to center ice for the face-off, while Conroy skates from side to side in the goalie's crease, roughing up the ice purposely he he'll get the proper traction. Now it's just Carrigan and Morrill, from Southie, all alone in the face-off circle, and the ref drops the puck...
...after a couple of minutes, it happens. Ahern, who skates around guys without even trying, and who'll probably go to Harvard next year, hits Carrigan with a pass at the red line, and Chucky sends Cusack in all alone, and Kenny beats the Southie goalie and it's 1-0. The Tech fans go wild, the Pork is up and screaming, and the Tech song, which goes to the tune of "Wvatt Earo," is on everyone's lips...
...long overdue. From 1965 to 1968, the number of prose cutions for fornication and lascivious carriage had dropped from 1,048 to 349, and the number of convictions from 790 to 169. "We hardly ever make a mor als arrest any more," said New Haven Police Chief James Ahern. Even so, the breadth of the old laws invited ar bitrary interpretation and unequal en forcement. All that was needed to prove lascivious carriage, for example, was some sign of sexual activity. "Oh, you know - rumpled sheets, both of them in a state of undress - that sort of thing," said...
...Ahern also has visions of expanding his staff to handle the increasing workload. "I would like, to get more men. I could use more men. I could use five more men easy...