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Although he allowed few hits, hurler McOsker was not particularly sharp. In the fifth inning, he hung a curve which second baseman Bob DiGrazia belted for another four bagger, to make the score...
Stories like these end up hurting the Herald's accurate reporting. One Sunday night in early October, the Herald got the story of the departure of Boston Police Commissioner Robert J. DiGrazia to Rockville, Maryland, and quickly made it the lead story in their Monday paper. When the early edition hit the streets around 11 p.m., the reaction was skeptical: "Remember the Yale story, just wait to see what the Globe has," said most local editors. At the Globe, however, editors decided to keep the DiGrazia story out of the first editions--thereby not allowing the Herald enough time...
...black, left his post as director of the Model Cities Program in the White administration, he was O'Neil's favorite target. Throughout 1973, Dapper threatened that he would have Parks indicted for stealing $23 million, but no case ever materialized. After Parks left, reform-minded Police Commissioner Robert diGrazia--"The fuckin' Messiah," Dapper says--became his target. O'Neil maintains that diGrazia and his corps of civilian advisors are part of a domestic CIA conspiracy organized through the National Police Foundation. As evidence, he points to diGrazia's friendship with MBTA Director Robert Kiley, a former CIA official...
...keys on their belt loops and shooting the bull. After joining state and federal police in what amounted to a war-time-like occupation of the troubled schools and streets last fall, they now have orders to keep a low profile, to "keep the lid on," from Robert J. DiGrazia, Boston's respected, reform-minded and very high profile police commissioner...
...record fist-waving parents as they shouted "Never, never, never" along South Boston's streets. Over 900 citizens, mostly white and anti-busing, rode the paddy wagons to the local jails in the first two years after the court order took shape. Over 400 were prosecuted. And, as Commissioner DiGrazia so unproudly points out, none received sentences from mostly neighborhood courts. This show of laxness and reactionary unity in the city's neighborhoods, along with the angry words and deeds that it compounded, turned Boston into an object of fascination and irony as media and communities, both North and South...