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...usually win because only the mildly-interested Faculty show up. In medium-sized Faculty meetings (250-350), liberals generally win because the junior Faculty show up. And in large meetings or on mailed ballots which go out to all 700 Faculty members, conservatives win overwhelmingly because the real "back-bench" traditionalists are voting...
...Bench warrants were issued at this time by the Superior Court for the arrest of four other Panthers-Landon Williams, Rory Hithe, Lonnie McLucas, and George Sams. Hithe and Williams were arrested in Denver on June 5, McLukas a few weeks later in Salt Lake City. Although McLukas waived extradition and was brought to New Haven immediately, Hithe and Williams are still in Denver fighting attempts to extradite them to New Haven to stand trial...
...Saturday, November 23, 1957, first-year coach John Yovicsin walked along his team's bench and asked if by chance anyone had played quarterback in high school. Harvard was being shut out by Yale on regional television, and all three Crimson quarterbacks had left the game with injuries...
...wilder urban system is Dorothy Proctor's plot to install a love-in on every park bench. Her life-sized fiberglass grandmas, boy-with-dogs, and hand-holding couples may be seated throughout Boston. Each sculpture would leave room for six live people on a bench. So, according to the artist, "You could put your head on a girl's lap or lean against Grandma, and a child could pat the dog without damage to either." A less cozy proposal specifices concrete benches-figures and bench would be cast as one piece...
...admirer, "has a stroboscopic eye." But Verkade goes far beyond mere reportage. He has an instinct for attitude and gesture that invites comparison with Degas and, in another medium, Daumier. He can catch the slump of an old man's shoulders as he sits alone on a park bench, waiting for nothing; the sweet awkwardness of a young mother holding her baby...