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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Also yesterday, Carnell Cooper, a 6',4" senior who led the Ivy League in rebounds last year and was Yale's leading scorer with 12.1 points per game, was chosen the team's Most Valuable Player...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE BASKETBALL | 4/15/1977 | See Source »

...qualities--loyalty, pride, a sense of tradition, bravery--are also there. Scorn is reserved for the meddling "goo-goos," the knee-jerk liberals who vanish in crisis, the Brattle Street chic who, safely on the sidelines, their children in private schools, applaud Garrity's ruling. At times, Liberty's Chosen Home is devastating social history: the concerned group of clergymen unable to agree on a joint statement about the crisis over their breakfast at the Harvard Club; the silence of civil libertarians when the TPF went into the Rabbit Inn with clubs swinging; the bizarre and absurd posturing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Poor as Political Pawns | 4/15/1977 | See Source »

...politically, abandoned by the state government, and eventually betrayed by President Ford (in Ford's infamous press conference--televised nationally--where he as much as told Southie its actions were right). Because of Lupo's access to normally off-the-record meetings between White and his staff, Liberty's Chosen Home also offers a case-study of civic decision-making--although at times the Mayor and his aides--Bob Kiley, Ira Jackson, Eddie King, Bob Schwartz, Kirk O'Donnell--have few options and are forced to take a particular course of action. At one point, the city government discovers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Poor as Political Pawns | 4/15/1977 | See Source »

...school system and the same economic problems (unemployment, loss of business) plaguing the rest of New England. Lupo asks, quite rightly, "If such a place is allowed to flirt so closely with disaster, then what can the message be for the great urban centers of this republic?" Liberty's Chosen Home offers no master plan for change, but Lupo argues that unless the federal government faces up to its responsibilities in urban centers and the suburbs end their hostility to the inner city, disaster may indeed be just around the corner. Lupo's study echoes Elma Lewis's observation that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Poor as Political Pawns | 4/15/1977 | See Source »

...HAVEN, Conn.--Jim Yent, a 6',6" sophomore from Canoga Park, Calif., was chosen last night as captain of the 1977-78 Yale University basketball team. Yent was a starter for the Elis all season, averaging 9.4 points and 5.8 rebounds per game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE BASKETBALL | 4/15/1977 | See Source »

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