Word: backman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coaches bring much experience to the squad. Aiding head coach John Baker '72 will be Bill Backman, a Harvard police officer who was captain of Northeastern's undefeated 1972 crew. Peter Huntsman '74 promises to improve the Radcliffe lightweight prospects. Huntsman, a member of last year's intercollegiate champion Harvard lightweights, earned a bronze medal in the U.S. lightweight straight four at the World Championships in Switzerland last summer...
...bill, sponsored by State Senator Jack H. Backman (D-Brookline), received a unanimous report out of the Joint Legislative Committee last week. Actually a compromise worked out from several other more radical reform bills, the Backman proposal could come up for debate in the state senate within two weeks...
Several bills for reducing existing Massachusetts penalties for possession of marijuana were introduced last month. State representative Barney Frank proposed a bill to remove all state controls on marijuana, and state senator Jack H. Backman proposed a more conservative statute to allow the possession and distribution of one ounce or less of grass...
...Backman's bill, aimed primarily at drug pushers, would maintain present penalties for cases involving greater amounts of marijuana...
Frank said yesterday that he was "perfectly willing to accept the Backman bill as a political compromise...