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These political skills seem to flow naturally from being what Baker calls a "congressional brat." His grandfather was a judge, his grandmother was a county sheriff, and both his father and stepmother served in Congress.* Baker's father sent his son the Congressional Record to read and, more important, introduced him to friends he made in Washington. Among them was the flamboyant Republican leader of the Senate, Everett Dirksen of Illinois; Baker married Dirksen's only child...
...drydocked." That's the way the puts it. The navy brat, turned high school All American, turned Harvard swimming captain seems to have a cheerful way of saying everything. But, then, one must remember, Maureen Gildea has reason to be happy. She is near the end of a long, hard road back to health...
...work has finally paid off for Maureen Gildea. Coach Vicki Hays expects her to swim in the league championships next weekend. It's been a long, hard road back. But Maureen Gildea is no stranger to hard work, nor is she a stranger to long roads. When the Navy brat weighs anchor at the Ivies next weekend with a working knee, she can claim to have won her greatest victory...
...mile: 1. Billings (BU) 8:45.8, 2. Weber (H) 9:00.25, 3. Brat (BC) 9:01.06, 4. Richard (NU) 9:02.21, 5. S. Gerken (H) 9:02.73. Two-mile relay: 1. BC 7:42.74, 2. H 7:42.79, 3. NU 7:43.94, 4. MIT 7:49.54, 5. Tufts 7:53.30; Distance relay 1 NU 10:12.3, 2. BU 10:12.3, 3. BC 10:28/9, 4. H 10:37.5, 5. Brandeis 10:48.8. One-mile relay 1 BU 3:18.02, 2. NU 3:21.01, 3. MIT 3:21.41, 4. BC 3:21.87, 5. H 3:24.79; High jump: 1. Saunders...
...Chelsea and the dentist drop off Billy (Doug McKeon) A jaded kid from the city. Billy is a precocious adept at the fine art of "cruising chicks." At first he is insolent, recalcitrant obnoxious--a caricature of the stereotype of the urban brat Predictably. Ethel, Norman and nature work miracles on the lot in four lightening week's. The rest is connect-the-dots. By the end of On Golden Pondso many things have fixed themselves up that one has the feeling that Skylab has fallen out of the heavens and, after disintegrating, magically reassembled itself on earth Nice...