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...always wanted to beat up a boy," one potential female jock said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Girls Might Play On House Teams | 2/7/1970 | See Source »

...jock hanger on is telling a jock superhero where he can get a paper typed for what is reputed to be the biggest gut at Harvard. He will write the paper, have it typed...

Author: By Mike Kinsley, | Title: Moving Day Goodbye, Eliot House | 2/4/1970 | See Source »

Leading the procession is Master Heimert. To his left, senior tutor Peter Wood. To his right, Mrs. Wood-Anne-a tutor in, of all things, History and Lit. With a dignified belch, Heimert plunges through the jocks, dealing out a few appropriate obscenities- noblesse oblige. Peter Wood, a reformed jock himself, lingers a little longer. Everyone admires Anne Wood. The History and Lit types admire her mind. The preppies admire her bearing. The others admire her legs. ("When it comes to the Woods." says one of the literati with distaste, "some people can't see the forest for the trees...

Author: By Mike Kinsley, | Title: Moving Day Goodbye, Eliot House | 2/4/1970 | See Source »

...Jock's hand reached back from the grave and caught his own killers." The words were those of the attorney for Joseph ("Jock") Yablonski, slain insurgent candidate for the leadership of the United Mine Workers Union. They fairly characterized the capture of three suspects in the murder. Yablonski, 59, had spent the last few weeks of his life in steadily mounting terror. Fearing assassination, he began keeping a gun at his bedside, installed floodlights outside his secluded Clarksville, Pa., home, and kept a list of license-plate numbers of unfamiliar cars in the area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: A Hand from the Grave | 2/2/1970 | See Source »

...bottom of the icy Monongahela River near Clarksville. The investigation was broadening into other states, including a Boyle stronghold in east Tennessee, and more arrests were expected. Meanwhile, the Senate announced a major investigation into the U.M.W. But the FBI refused to reveal who, if anyone, they suspect wanted Jock Yablonski dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: A Hand from the Grave | 2/2/1970 | See Source »

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