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Yaworski's tally brought the score to 4-2, and came 1:13 after the first of two third-stanza power play tallies by Rick Benson brought the icemen to within one for the third time in the contest. Benson scored again at 17:58, but a bench minor to Harvard with 48 seconds left dashed all dreams of overtime...
Carlesimo started out in college ball by riding the bench on a Fordham team in 1968-69 that was captained by Harvard coach Frank McLaughlin. After graduating, he served as an assistant coach for three years at Fordham. Last night, however, McLaughlin had to take a back seat to Carlesimo...
When Lau left the contest at 3:16 of the third with a severely bruised knee, junior John Hynes came in cold off the bench and surrendered two blue-line bombs to close out the scoring...
Under U.S. law, the President picks federal judges with the advice and consent of the Senate. Under a practice known quaintly as senatorial courtesy, the process has traditionally worked the other way around. A Senator can blackball a nominee to the federal bench in his home state simply by returning a "blue slip" to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Senate colleagues invariably honor the blue slip, so Presidents long ago learned to let Senators do the choosing...
...should pick federal judges and how merit should be made the standard have never been as hotly debated or as important as now. Last October Congress passed the Omnibus Judgeship Act, creating 152 new federal judgeships, the largest one-shot increase ever. Given normal turnover on the bench, half of the nation's 643 federal appeals and district judges will owe their jobs to Carter by the end of his term in 1980. Says Leonard Janofsky, American Bar Association president-elect: "No modern American President has had such an opportunity to mold the shape and character...