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This ancient bomber is groping upward, electronically blind, attempting to join five others stacked in layers just 500 ft. apart. At 10,000 ft. the sky is an inkwell, and the primary and back-up heading systems are out. The radar works sporadically, and even when it does function, it provides tunnel vision, off to one side. The only dependable navigation aid is a simple compass, just like the ones people stick on the dashboards of their cars...
Better, now the back-up goalie for Mark Whiston on the varsity, is likely to see his first varsity action this weekend...
...changing his metabolism and his expectations. He does not pretend to keep the pace maintained by Carter or other recent predecessors, but he is chugging along steadily. To the trio in the Oval Office this evening, he ticks off requests -particularly his desire to get the first draft and back-up material...
Officials of the Globe said that they had several back-up plans if HSA turns down the concession, but declined to elaborate...
That was all for Goodwin, a Cambridge native. Enter back-up goaltender Grey Weicker. Then, at 18:30, exit back-up goaltender Grey Weicker, as St. Lawrence gambled with six skaters and an empty...