Word: carbos
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...just sat on my bed and cried," she says. "My first night at Harvard--I hadn't even met my roommates--I dropped off my bags, and my mom and I went to a Red Sox-Tigers doubleheader. They were great games, too. I wanted to see Bernie Carbo play...
Scott ruled that the girls-Lynda McNeal, Michelle LaBorde and Ramona Carbo-could get public school credit for the past semester only if they finish the year at Jones Street. When Lee asked that they be allowed to stay longer at Buckeye, Scott replied: "I don't think you can ask any more from this court, and it won't give any more." For most of the 100 spectators packed into the court and the 300 demonstrators outside, this Louisiana compromise was not much to cheer about...
Last week as they returned from Christmas vacation, the three found themselves caught up in a blizzard of nationwide publicity. No longer were they merely Ramona Carbo, 12, Lynda McNeal, 13, and Michelle LaBorde, 13. Suddenly they were the Buckeye Three...
...conflict began last August with a busing order by Federal District Judge Nauman Scott in Alexandria, La. Scott redrew local districts to put 107 seventh-and eighth-graders from the all-white Buckeye High School-including Carbo, McNeal and LaBorde-into the area served by the racially mixed Jones Street School in Alexandria, 15 to 20 miles away. Only 22 of the students complied. McNeal and LaBorde joined the majority who enrolled in private schools. A bogus address enabled Carbo to stay at Buckeye...
These are the people who leer through the history of the Red Sox. Like Bill Lee lighting a candle and leaving it on Don Zimmer's desk in memory of friend Bernie Carbo, on the day of Carbo's importation to Cleveland. Like Jimmy Piersall walking up to the pitcher's mound one afternoon during batting practice and firing a limp stream of water at homeplate with a squirt...