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...closed the gap to 28-16. Yale's hopes for avenging the 29-29 tie were dashed when Harvard's Steve Golden nailed a two-point conversion play late in the fourth quarter. Harvard added a final touchdown in the last seconds, as senior Steve Harrison, relegated to the bench by injuries, and junior Teddy DeMars, plunged over from the three. DeMars proved that Harrison belonged on the bench against the Elis, as he roared through the Yale defense for 139 yards on 14 carries (an average of almost 10 yards a carry...
When he was appointed a Boston municipal court judge in 1962, Jerome P. Troy, 55, had few credentials for the bench other than his record as a loyal Democratic Party functionary. Once he put on judicial robes, however, Troy seemed set for life...
...commit itself. It did hint that if the Bar Association formally requested Troy's disbarment, somebody might then be willing to fire him. All of which left the militant members of The People First somewhat frustrated. "Just look," said Mrs. Finn. "Troy's still on the bench...
...addition to the newcomers, the Mets have impressive residual batting strength in such World Series holdovers as Tommie Agee and Cleon Jones. "With the strong bench I have now," says Manager Yogi Berra, "I can rest one guy and still not lose any effectiveness. I remember one game where we had Mays, Agee, Jones, [Catcher Jerry] Grote and [Shortstop Bud] Harrelson on the bench, and we still...
...final vote was announced, Brandt, his face impassive, sat stoically on the government's front bench. The treaties-and with them the attendant progress toward East-West détente-had carried well enough. But the fact that the opposition C.D.U. had abstained almost to a man deprived Brandt of the "broad majority" he had labored to achieve and was a dismaying reversal of a carefully worked out bipartisan compromise...