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Cobb said veteran Buzz Baker who played cornerback last year, helped him learn the unfamiliar position. Then Bakor was hurt in the UMass scrimmage, and Cobb suddenly found himself the starting left cornerback. He still is, and Baker, healthy again, is on the bench...
...back half a century to the days when he was one of twelve children in a family so poor that their shoes were "held together with wooden pegs their father made." Chastising the American Bar Association and other professional groups that opposed Morrissey's nomination to the federal bench-they said he was the least qualified candidate in memory-Kennedy charged that their objections were rooted in snobbish distaste for the fact that struggling young Frank had been forced to attend "a local law school at night rather than a national law school by day." Earlier, and incorrectly, Teddy...
Nonetheless, argued Massachusetts' junior Senator last week, the Kennedy clan's longtime political trusty has a more substantial qualification for the federal bench in Boston. In Ted Kennedy's words, Frank is "absolutely in corruptible...
...relationship between the World Series and the season that precedes it is often purely coincidental. A team that won a record 111 games during the regular season loses four straight to one that won 97. A pinchhitter comes off the bench to clout two pinchhit home runs. A substitute outfielder makes one fantastic catch, brushes briefly with immortality-and for years afterward, people ask: Whatever became of Sandy Amoros? But last week's Series stuck strictly to the script...
...Although he is paid only $28,500 a year as the Justice Department's third high est official (behind the Attorney General and his deputy) and does not even rate a Government car, he is beyond question the nation's most influential advocate at the high-court bench...