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...sail on hand to mark that historic city's 350th birthday. But Cambridge historians will tell you that, some 990 years ago when the first ships blew into the Harbor, they didn't set anchor till they had journeyed up the river to Cambridge. Leif Ericson, these archaeologists contend, was the first Cantabrigian, and his settlement here may well have been the first European colony in the New World...
Some local historians, unwilling to get only facts surrounding the Revolutionary War, aren't stopping with written records. One ceremony, Dickerson said, may even commemorate the journey of Leif Ericson up the Charles River to the site of Mt. Auburn Hospital nearly 1000 years ago. Honest, there's even a placque that says he was there...
...President Carlton Rattigan, or maybe President Richard Monckton? Could it have been President Sven Ericson? No, it was President Jimmy Carter flickering across the screens of America from the tower of the United Nations to the burned-out South Bronx, then back in the Oval Office and preparing to thunder across America and then halfway around the world...
Once again the actions and antics of the real President seemed destined to dim the best creations of the novelists who gave us Rattigan, Monckton and Ericson. The 2:15 a.m. New York briefing by Press Secretary Jody Powell was the kind of breathless drama the White House used to reserve for wars, assassinations and summits. This one was to announce a tentative agreement about a Geneva conference that may or may not happen some...
Thompson characterized the smoke-filled Ames Courtroom as "a horrible combination of early Persian and ... Leif Ericson," but his observations on Harvard in general reflected a more virulent fear-and-loathing...