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...sense of bravado, Cooney was not a particularly courageous child. The first step to the heavyweight championship is always a dreary staircase to some cold, terrifying gym. He did not rush to the climb. "Boxing wasn't my dream," he says. "It was just a sport to me." To his father it was something more. Gerry enjoys likening the Cooneys to the Corbetts in the old Errol Flynn movie Gentleman Jim, and he approves of the nickname "Gentleman Gerry." Had Ward Bond portrayed the father, that would have been Tony Cooney. But Bond played John L. Sullivan...
While taxis and limos disgorge their well-dressed contents near the Yard gates this morning. Cynl Fisher and his colleague. Al MacGilveray, will climb quietly to the top of the Memorial Church bell tower, where they will wait for further instructions Shortly before 10 a.m. they will receive an intricate series of hand signals and nods triggered by the appearance of Mason Hammond. Pope Professor of Latin Emeritus point man for the big operation...
Promising a return to prosperity through the removal of government from the now deified marketplace, this Administration has helped unemployment climb to almost 10 percent--a staggering figure, higher than any other since the Great Depression. The White House seems shamefully cavalier about the fact that unemployment--brought on by its tight-money policies and refusal to initiate any job programs--aggravates social rights and threatens the fragile network that unites the country...
...administration." Michael Barone '66 writes in the Lant book. The College was liberal, ambitious-and ready to implode. Secretary of Defense Robert S McNamara visited Quincy House in 1966, and several hundred members and sympathizers of Students for a Democratic Society gathered to block his egress, forcing him to climb on top of his car and snottily answer queries about the war in Vietnam...
...bestir ourselves, we ride out to big airports and climb onto big planes that are as amiably de-cultured as Muzak, as white sound. The jumbo jet is the airborne equivalent of the interstate highway-fast and convenient, but a sort of whispering vacuum. One might as well be stuffed into a cartridge and shot through a pneumatic tube, like interoffice mail...