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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...impeded her ability to eat the scrambled eggs, while Julie Brynteson arrived with two compression pads positioned so that the laughter led to no end. Kerry Bryan arrived with a blond, curly wig and a sweatshirt that had "Coach Bob" written on the front and Stefi Baum donned a black wig and painted on a mustache to imitate assistant coach Bob Friedman. Unfortunately for the tri-captain, the paint didn't come off completely and she walked around with a five o'clock shadow for a few days...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Rolling With Laughter | 11/14/1979 | See Source »

What does it take to earn varsity status at Harvard? Politics, pompoms or an Ivy League championship? Take the cheerleaders, for example, a group that traditionally toiled at basketball games with no recognition and now earns "varsity" sweaters--the big crimson H outlined in white against a black background--and will ride free to New Haven this weekend. Or look at the rugby team that's been kicking around for 105 years and just last spring had to pay its own way to England for tournament games. Despite the difference in treatment, both teams have one thing in common--they...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: So, You Wanna Be a Letterman? | 11/14/1979 | See Source »

...thousand, eight hundred feet above the trailer a single engine plane stalls, glides and drops two black dots. They grow. Their parachutes don't open but Maclaughlin ignores the two plummeting people. He looks steely-eyed at his charges, each of us with our heads tossed back, eyes wide open, jaws dropped, certain the two divers will, in less than 17 seconds, bounce and splatter on the grass. "Ooooo, ooooo" we say as two chutes blossom and the jumpers silently glide toward earth. Maclaughlin's brows are down, his lips pursed, his eyes still locked in on his students. "Snap...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Stepping Out Over Taunton | 11/14/1979 | See Source »

Puopolo died on Dec. 17,1976, a month after he was stabbed. Easterling, Soares and Allen were convicted of the murder in March, 1977, but the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court granted them a retrial earlier this year because the court said the prosecution had systematically eliminated blacks from the jury. The three defendants are black...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Vice Expert Testifies in Puopolo Trial | 11/14/1979 | See Source »

...Busing children from one poor school to another poor school doesn't do anybody any good," Wade said. "Neither does taking a black family from one raggedy home in one section and putting them in a raggedy home in another section of the city," he added...

Author: By Jack A. Laschever, | Title: Local Panelists Disagree on Solutions To Abolish Racial Violence in Boston | 11/13/1979 | See Source »

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