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...Navy, which North had allowed to fall greatly below strength in the early '70s, is rapidly being expanded. The number of seamen will almost double, from last year's 16,000 to 28,000, and new ships are being outfitted at Chatham, Plymouth and Portsmouth. Press gangs are out nightly along the Thames to find able-bodied men-and some not so ablebodied. Relying on the peaceful words of the Bourbon Kings of France and Spain, the Admiralty has sent most of its active war vessels -24 ships of the line and 20 frigates-to form an ever...
Died. Robert Leo (Bobby) Hackett, 61, American jazz virtuoso; of a heart attack; in West Chatham, Mass. Young Bobby left school in Providence, R.I., at 14 to play guitar gigs in local restaurants, and later moved on to the cornet, the trumpet and fame with Glenn Miller and other titans of the prewar Big Band era. More recently, Hackett had been paying his bills by performing anonymously in treacly mood-music albums released under Jackie Gleason's name, but his reputation seems secure -almost as hot, cool and craftsmanlike on the horn in pieces like String of Pearls...
...Women's College Coalition, a Washington-based group representing half the nation's 140 women's colleges, enrollment is up 3% over last year. More significant, applications are up a healthy 7%. At some schools, among them Marymount Manhattan College in New York City, Chatham College in Pittsburgh and St. Joseph College in West Hartford, Conn., applications are nearly 50% ahead of last year...
...American Michigan netminder Robbie Moore played superbly, repeatedly saving his team as the Wolverines were outshot, 41-22. The junior from Chatham, Ontario, who underwent knee surgery at the beginning of the season, finished the tournament with 76 stops over two games...
...immediate plans call for ten days of golf at the Eastward Ho Country Club and rest at his modest cottage in nearby South Chatham, Mass. After that, the "Silver Fox" plans to return to the firm of Hale & Dorr and his old corner suite on the 33rd floor at 28 State Street in downtown Boston. His colleagues are ready to welcome him back warmly. Though many did not sympathize with his client, most Boston lawyers agree that James Draper St. Clair performed well, even brilliantly at times, in the defense of Richard M. Nixon...