Word: called
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some tropical storm-type gusts whip up and the officials should call off the race, right? Wrong--just a delayed start because of the choppy conditions created by winds sweeping across the course from the Boston side of the Charles...
Meanwhile, in Science Center 112, a group of students sit at desks awaiting a telephone call. David A. Bell '89, Liam T. A. Ford '91 and Christopher M. VanDyke '89 have volunteered to be the SafeStreets team for the evening. Tonight, it's their job to accompany anyone who calls 5-TROD or drops by looking for an escort anywhere on campus, excluding the Business School and destinations across the River...
...that the person waiting for us can easily recognize us. Each escort pair gets one beeper so that home base can give us our next assignment while we're out walking someone else. And, the particulars about each assignment go in the log book--you know, time of call, whereabouts of caller, destination, escorters' names...
...more people and the weather wasn't so bad, we'd send an escort pair out walking," says VanDyke. "If a call came in, we would give them a beep and they'd call us back...
Returning from the massive pro-choice rally in Washington, D.C. last Sunday, State Rep. Marjorie A. Clapprood (D-Sharon), a likely candidate for lieutenant governor, complained about what she thought was an inappropriate choice of words on the part of an airport shuttle driver. "Did he call me `darling? "Clapprood asked friends. They told her she had misunderstood. The driver's quite appropriate warning had been, "Don't lean on the door...