Word: crocker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...July the investors won approval for a $40,000 loan from the Bank of America, only to have it withdrawn when the bank found out the intended name. Dal Bozzo et al. got the money from Crocker National and opened anyway, on Belden Street, half a block away from the bank's towering headquarters. The Bank of America filed its suit and was promptly razzed by Herb Caen, the San Francisco Chronicle columnist...
Somewhere between the two is the vision of the contemporary saint as a person of persistently heroic virtue and courage whose life is a model for others -a Mother Teresa, perhaps, or a Mahatma Gandhi. "A saint is someone by whom one lives," says the Rev. John Crocker, Episcopal chaplain at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "someone who for us is a revelation of what life is all about...
...Lots of kids are not mature enough for an Ivy education," Crocker said. "They want to play hockey four years." Now they can do both, and Ivy schools will definitely be more attractive to top hockey prospects...
Toomey, like Crowe, Crocker, Lufkin and Semler, does not see the addition of freshmen to his squad as the answer to all his problems. Cornell and Harvard are still considered to be the favorites. After all, they too have the option of skating freshmen. "The teams that are strong continue to be strong and the weak ones continue to be weak." Lufkin, winless so far this season, sighed...
...Yale, it looks like another long season for Lufkin and company. "I feel sorry for Lufkin," Crocker said...