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Paced by Junior John Solomon's 19 points, junior Matt Acker's 17 and senior Chris Harvey's 13, the Harvard Classics basketball club downed Hanscom Air Force Base, 76-73, yesterday afternoon at Briggs Cage. The win raises the club's record...
Fitzgerald hands the flag to a team of four fliers from nearby Hanscom Air Force Base so they can raise it over the school while the band plays the national anthem. But with the brass looking on, they run into problems--the halyards are too thick for the grommets in the corners of the flag, and try as they will--and they try as they will for fully five minutes--the goddamn thing will not go up. Finally, a little desperately, Colonel Phillips goes up to help. At last, the flag goes up and the band begins to play...
...Massachusetts issues on Saturday, and neither were the people watching him. They came to the rally to see the president of the United States, many because they had never seen a president before, and many because a presidential visit is always an honor. As the plane touched down at Hanscom field early in the afternoon, a cry went up from the small crowd waiting patiently. "Oooh--Isn't it beautiful?" they said. Air Force One taxied around the tarmac, and stopped just in front of the portable steps that motored out to let him disembark. The crowd waited, and sure...
ROUTE 128 from Hanscom Field to the Lynn exit was never so easy to drive on. No cars, except for the motorcade--only people lined up on the side waving at the black limousine, with the flags streaming alongside the strong hood. "Welcome Mr. President," was spelled out on the Showcase Cinema billboard, and players on the golf course took time out from their putting to see the sight. State police officers stood at every exit, and people leaned on their cars, looking not the least bit inconvenienced by their wait to get back on the road...
Latest plans call for Carter to arrive at the rally at 4:10 p.m. from Hanscom Air Force Base, riding in a motorcade with senatorial candidate Paul Tsongas (D.-Mass.) and gubernatorial candidate Edward J. King, a White House spokesman said yesterday. An estimated 250,000 people are expected to attend the campaign rally, the Associated Press reported yesterday...