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...went to Harvard." The former Kirkland House resident, however, does not think that playing in the Ivy League with deemphasized programs and no spring practices hurt him as a player. "I would have the same intensity no matter where I played. Football is football. When you put on the helmet and chinstrap and go out to play, it's the same rules and the people hit just as hard...
...however, with his awesome speed and helmet-first style, Rickey Henderson, 23, has brought the slippery science out of the bars and back to the bleachers. The reason? The Oakland Athletics' ebullient outfielder riddled Brock's seemingly shatterproof record last Friday night in a four-steal spree. Said a jubilant A's manager, Billy Martin: "He's the most exciting player since Mickey Mantle...
DIED. Loyal Davis, 86, Chicago brain surgeon and adoptive father of Nancy Reagan; of congestive heart failure; in Scottsdale, Ariz. Developer of a special shrapnel helmet for air crewmen in World War II, he was president of the American College of Surgeons in 1962-63. Davis criticized shoddy medical training, which, he said, meant that half the operations in the U.S. were performed by inadequate surgeons. An outspoken political conservative, he influenced Nancy (whom he adopted when she was 14 after he married her mother) and later his son-in-law Ronald Reagan. Said Nancy of him last...
Like many other students at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS). Herman Marshall straps on his helmet each morning and bikes the four miles from his apartment in Medford to the Astrophysics lab. But within the intangible institution of GSAS--which has a scattered student body, a sporadic academic calendar and few buildings of its own--Herman Marshall, as president of the Graduate Student Council (GSC), has a clearly defined role...
Nobody would say Lauda lost his nerve. "Desire" is the right word. In a fearful and fiery 1976 crash in Germany, Lauda's helmet had been ripped off, his left ear burned off, his lungs seared; he was given the last rites. Six weeks later he drove again, and one year later he was champion again. Then Lauda walked away. Why did he come back? "The challenge," he said...