Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Bok told a rain-soaked audience of alumni and parents last June 13 that he is "inclined to agree" with alumni who believe that political pressure on the University rather than a thorough, fair debate on academic grounds drove ROTC from its Harvard base in Spring...
Ralph Goldston is gone. Ralph Glodston, a crusty and hardnosed coaching veteran, who punctuated practices with pithy similes and drove his defensive backs through hell and back, who once likened a defensive back's stance to "a dog shitting razor blades," and who inspired with the regularity of a Swiss watch bombastic letters from the Association of Black Athletes charging the football staff with racism. Glodston who resented being considered a "black" first and a coach second, who wanted to get into serious football, who tasted the brand and atmosphere of Cambridge and pulled up roots for the greener...
...difficulties, his sup porters have advanced the notion that Richardson may be the culprit: to wreck Agnew's presidential hopes and further his own chance for the G.O.P. nomi nation in 1976. Last week the chief of the Justice Department's Criminal Di vision, Henry E. Petersen, drove to Baltimore to inspect the evidence against Agnew collected by Beall and his three assistants, Barnet D. Skolnik, Russell T. Baker Jr. and Ronald S. Liebman...
...airliner to Southern Yemen. Last week young Joe had his worst mishap to date while visiting some friends on Nantucket (sister island to Martha's Vineyard, site of Uncle Ted's disastrous automobile accident in 1969, which ended in the drowning of Mary Jo Kopechne). As Joe drove his open Jeep along winding Polpis Road through the island's sparsely populated interior one afternoon, the vehicle skidded out of control on a curve and flipped over, throwing all of its seven passengers into the scrub alongside the road...
...intrigued by the fact that in a generally calm region it experienced frequent small tremors. In mid-July, when two moderate quakes jolted the area, Aggarwal and colleagues from Lamont set up seven portable seismographs in addition to a permanent station already in place. For two weeks, Aggarwal drove 100 miles every day to check the instrument readings. His routine paid off. On Aug. 1 he telephoned Sykes, head of the seismology group at Lament, and predicted that a quake of magnitude 2.5 or more should be coming "in a couple of days." Two days later, the earth dutifully complied...