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Signs of Spring. The U.S. capital of lacrosse is Baltimore, which has been in love with the sport since 1878, when a track-and-field team returned from Newport, R.I., with news of a "most activating and exciting new game." To a Baltimorean, the first signs of spring are the...
The Crux. Despite such isolated backers as Menzies, President Johnson decided that he could not ignore all the criticism. Accepting a longstanding invitation to speak at Johns Hopkins University, the President appeared before students and faculty in Baltimore. He described the Vietnamese war as one of "unparalleled brutality," where "simple...
The team's difficulties over the vacation were partly a result of tougher opposition. Last year, instead of meeting Virginia, Navy, and Maryland on its swing through the South, the team took on Hampden-Sydney, Lynchburg, and Johns Hopkins.
Square Johns. As his lust for speed and adventure finally lessened, Sands settled into a series of jobs as a sales executive and sometimes as a song-and-dance entertainer. Though financially successful, Sands felt drawn back to prison to try to teach convicts something 80% of them fail to...
The problem, Sands holds, is to unscramble the convict's twisted values of what is smart and what is dumb. "I've been a con, as smart and tough as they come," he tells the prisoners, "but I'm not a wise guy any more. All the...