Word: boland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What the draft-Kennedy forces lack in money (total budget: $175,000) and big-name resources, they make up for in youthful spirits and shoe leather. They have hundreds of volunteers, directed by a small but experienced team of campaign veterans. It is a bare-knuckle fight. Observes A.J. Boland, Democratic chairman in Escambia County in the panhandle: "They're shooting to kill here, fighting like cats and dogs. The Kennedy people in the county intend to march their slate, 32 strong, to the voting place in a mass, to prevent last-minute defections...
Irion has not played a minute this season and right now he is hobbling around on crutches following a second operation performed in December by Harvard's chief surgeon, Dr. Arthur Boland. "I knew in pre-season that my knee wasn't as good as it should be, but I was hoping to play at about 80 per cent and I intended to play," said Irion. "Just the idea of playing for the new coach and the new program was enough motivation for me to go out there...
Irion participated in three pre-season scrimmages but his knee quickly puffed up. Boland administered a dye test on the knee and decided it was necessary for Steve to undergo an operation known as a "lateral mackintosh." Irion had severed the cruciate ligament which holds the knee cap in place and it had literally dissolved. In a delicate three-hour operation, Boland drilled a pair of small holes in Irion's knee which he threaded with a tendon from a leg muscle so as to reconstruct the missing ligament...
...Kathy Boland...
Most marshals also said they ran because they saw it as a chance to maintain communication with their classmates after graduation. "It's kind of frightening knowing that you won't be seeing a lot of your friends," Boland said...