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Senior co-captain Bob Hooft (seven rebounds, 15 points) and challenging freshman guard Donald Fleming (18 points off the bench) led the losing effort for Harvard. But it was a hustling team game--an almost-constant full court press, and a scrappy though poor shooting (.338) offense--that kept the Crimson in a game that could have been a blow...
...down the right boards on a two-on-one break. Using Murray as a decoy, he wound up at the right face-off circle and lasered a shot along the ice past Harrison's stick side, triggering stunned silence among RPI followers and a mass celebration on the Harvard bench...
...just dropped behind the Pocono Mountains, its afterglow silhouetting plain wooden bleachers rapidly filling with fans. The Palmerton, Pa., high school band struts along the end zone, then turns smartly down the visiting team's sideline toward a roped-off section behind their players' bench. On the near side of the field, the band for Pleasant Valley High is already in place, alternating Sousa with the theme from Rocky, while cheerleaders flash blue and white pompoms. Five candidates for Pleasant Valley Homecoming Queen wait with feigned casualness in a special section, shyly grinning escorts at their sides. Just...
...tall, gray-haired man in rimless glasses standing by the Pleasant Valley bench smiles happily. He is Hugo Verbruggen, M.D., Ph.D., fellow of the American College of Surgeons and of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, a distinguished doctor who acts as team physician to the Bears because his son once Clayed football with them. Dr. Verbruggen sees the game of football from a slightly different perspective. "It rained a few days ago," he remarks. "The field has dried out enough for good footing, but the ground is still nice and soft. You don't get as many injuries...
October 30, 1978--Cambridge Mayor Thomas W. Danehy steps down from the bench in the City Council's chamber during a hearing on the Red Line Extension project, and motions for Councilor Lawrence R. Frisoli to take the chair. Danehy leans back in Frisoli's seat, winks and is recognized by Frisoli. Standing, Danehy approaches two representatives from the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority [MBTA], and begins accusing them of ignorance and deception in dealing with the citizens of Cambridge throughout their effort to extend the Red Line past Harvard Square. Danehy's voice begins to shake--he clenches his fists...