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...Lake Worth, Fla. Neale spent eight seasons as an outfielder for the Cincinnati Reds, starred in the 1919 World Series, and played pro football during the off-seasons under an assumed name. In his first job as head coach, he led Pennsylvania's little-known Washington and Jefferson College into the 1922 Rose Bowl, where the heavily favored University of California barely managed to hold the Easterners to a scoreless tie. Widely credited with developing the man-to-man defense, the triple and fake reverse, Neale went on to handle the Yale backfield under Head Coach "Ducky" Pond until...
Aaron Burr seems particularly pertinent. The Burr-Jefferson Electoral College tie in 1800 led to the Twelfth Amendment, which revised the process of electing the President and Vice President.* After killing Alexander Hamilton in the Weehawken duel in 1804, Burr became the first Vice President to be indicted-a precedent that has lately been dusted off by constitutional experts...
Burr dealt with the indictment by leaving town. There followed his premature adventures in empire building and manifest destiny in the Southwest. These eventually led to a charge of treason brought by President Jefferson, a trial that saw Jefferson invoke Executive privilege to withhold documents. The far-reaching effect of Burr's eventual acquittal was to help define what constitutes a treasonable...
Burr's most savage bites come out of Thomas Jefferson, portrayed as a coward who sat out the Revolution in Virginia, an "exuberant mediocrity in the arts," a household tinkerer who is almost killed by one of his hideaway beds, and a grand hypocrite who spouted humanist theory but kept and sexually exploited slaves...
Olga C. Armstrong lives in the Jefferson Park housing project in North Cambridge, and is the only black candidate other than incumbent Pierce. She says the biggest problem confronting the school system is motivating students to attend classes, and advocates hiring more minority group teachers...