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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gary Bosnic missed 43-yd. FG attempt for Harvard...
...lifelong resident of the City of Boston, I was offended by the recent article in What Is To Be Done, "Southie Solipsisms." The article stereotyped South Bostonians as a bunch of racist, ignorant derelicts and perpetuated the misconceptions concerning a strong, vibrant community. My letter is not an attempt to whitewash the racial violence that has occurred in South Boston but instead to criticize anyone who seeks to rubber-stamp communities or people as belonging to a certain mold...
Yale drove again but failed to score when Schwartz missed a 30-yd, field goal attempt...
...neighboring Maryland, the state Democratic administration had also been scarred by corruption. The Governor himself-Marvin Mandel, was found guilty and forced out of office. One of his cabinet members, Transportation Secretary Harry Hughes, 51, quit in May 1977 in protest against an attempt to meddle with Baltimore subway contracts. Hughes, once so obscure that he was described as "a lost ball in long grass," in September upset Mandel's successor, Acting Governor Blair Lee III. Last week, Hughes' fresh face was too much for for mer Republican Senator J. Glenn Beall Jr., who had difficulty explaining...
...Crimson, playing with the wind at its back in the opening quarter, right away engineered a mini-drive, but missed a chance to get on the board when Gary Bosnic cream-puffed a 43-yd. field-goal attempt...