Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Edmund Dinis, the Massachusetts district attorney in whose jurisdiction the death occurred last July, seemed determined to compensate-or even over-compensate-for his initial timidity in investigating the biggest case of his life. He allowed his assistant, Armand Fernandes, to hint in the course of cross-examination that Mary Jo might have died from a skull fracture or "manual strangulation" rather than drowning. Summoning such witnesses as Edgartown Police Chief Dominick Arena, Dinis adumbrated some of the testimony he would presumably pursue if a formal inquest is held in Massachusetts...
Harvard's cross country team had just finished its training meal yesterday evening, and was strolling easily down Quincy Street to board the chartered bus for New Haven and the meet with Yale and Princeton...
...jock, football players and hockey players, soccer men and wrestlers all seem to blur into one, large hunk. But cross country runners always have seemed different-somehow not your basic jocks...
...several years ago walked briskly once around Holyoke Center, has pointed out, "it's just not natural." His point, I think, is that football and soccer are the kind of things everyone engages in at one time or another. But whoever heard of a Sunday afternoon pick-up cross country meet? There is a professionalism, a pure individual drive, built into the sport...
People quit football because they find it is swallowing up their life while there are more important things going on. For Koerner, cross-country is-if not a spiritual experience-at least something that has "nothing to do with the rest of the world...