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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Semler will skate three lines against the Crimson tonight, with captain Clay Kyle centering Mark Stuckey (15 points this season) on the left side and Walt Snickenberger on the right side of the first line. Top scorers Craig Dahl (18 points) and Gary O'Meara (17) team up with Brian McIntosh, while Dunc Fisher, Mike Bascom and Corky Powers make up a third line...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Tiger Icemen Hope to Snatch Harvard's 7-Year Win Streak | 2/9/1974 | See Source »

...middle of 1967 the New Orleans newspapers figured out that Garrison was spending almost all his time investigating the assassination, and he became a national figure overnight, the golden boy of the conspiracy buffs. A few months later, Garrison indicted Clay Shaw, a quiet, wealthy New Orleans businessman, in connection with the conspiracy, and once that happened his troubles began...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: The Rise and Fall of Big Jim G. | 2/6/1974 | See Source »

This is not to say that Garrison is a good man. For at least his last six years in office, he was a negligent district attorney, and his indictment of Clay Shaw was totally unjustified. But his unique bi-racial constituency, though helpful in winning elections, lost Garrison the backing of the daily press and major financial institutions. Because of this he ended up absorbing some of the criticism other politicians should have gotten. The main drawback, in fact, of the black-blue-collar-white dream coalition is that it will always face a hostile establishment. The only other politician...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: The Rise and Fall of Big Jim G. | 2/6/1974 | See Source »

Slow Erosion. The change in courtroom attitude is most evident in urban areas, where cop-wary blacks and Spanish-speaking people now have larger representation on juries than they had in the past. That is only one part of what H. Clay Jacke, a Los Angeles attorney (and former policeman) calls the "slow erosion" of cops' courtroom status. Detective Tom Moran, 23-year veteran on the Boston force, observes: "Our credibility bottomed-out during the late '60s. We had all the civil rights cases, the riots, the antiwar marches, and we were ordered to control them. Corruption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Cops' Credibility | 2/4/1974 | See Source »

Lindner, a 1972 Eastern Clay Courts Champion, has recently come into his own in national tennis circles. Ranked in the top ten in the East, he was captain of the 1973 summer Eastern Junior Davis Cup team...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Harvard Tennis Player Upsets Arthur Ashe, 6-4 | 2/1/1974 | See Source »

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