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Pusey had never been a popular choice among the Beacon Hill-Upper East Side-Main Line members of the Harvard establishment. A scholarship student from a Midwestern high school, he was hardly in their tradition. But the State Street bankers, and their St. Grottlesex classmates who dominated the Faculty, were willing to withhold judgement. For a time, things seemed to be working out, and the angry murmurs in the lounges of the Somerset and Union clubs died down somewhat. But to the traditional Brahmin, religion has always been more lip service than piety, and the idea that a Harvard President...
...different line of speculation. They said that the generals had taken a detour to catch a glimpse of the heavily guarded Russian border near the picturesque Turkish town of Ani, the ancient walled capital of Armenia. Emerging from a cloud bank, they picked up the Leninakan radio beaconwhich just happened to be set on precisely the same frequency as the beacon that normally comes from the Kars radio tower. Whether the Soviets deliberately lured the plane off course is uncertain, but the U.S. is convinced that it has happened before along the Soviet-Turkish border...
...reading along the route; by comparison with Bronson, Henry James' The Bostonians is an act of primer realism. But what a brilliant, erratic goodbye this book is to all those Puritan ghosts who, for two centuries of fiction, have haunted the Concord woods and the cobbled streets of Beacon Hill...
Pilot Russell apparently was using his automatic direction-finder (ADF), a standard navigational device that "homes" on a radio beacon. Though...
With his arrest, Fleisher becomes the sixth suspect in the robbery-slaying. The FBI affidavit issued for his arrest alleges that he was present with all five suspects in the apartment of Kathy Power at 163 Beacon St. on the day before the robbery, stayed the night and was present while plans for the robbery were discussed...