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...Andover that Doherty also learned to play lacrosse. Although he never played the game in high school, Doherty stepped right in and earned a starting role on an Andover team that was ranked first in New England. Chris has kept it up and earned two varsity letters in lax since coming to Cambridge...
Actually, it was the referees that kept the score close at halftime, for after Brown had hit Wayne Moore at the Bruins' five-yard line with the clock registering single digits, the men in stripes forgot about the game and concentrated on winding their watches back an hour in accordance with Eastern Standard Time...
...only did they award the Crimson one more play before the half expired, but when the left side of Harvard's offensive line jumped offsides on that play, they kept their flags in their pockets...
...that ever since the canal was opened for business in 1914, the U.S. has more than made up for its initial land grab. It has managed the canal in an openhanded manner, allowing access to all the world's shipping, including that of Communist nations. It has deliberately kept fees and tolls as low as possible. Says David McCullough, author of The Path Between the Seas, a meticulous history of the canal's construction: "The fact is no power on earth could have done what we did. We've done a lot of small, stupid things...
Bert Lance. Businessmen did not think Carter should have kept Lance as Director of the Office of Management and Budget; some, indeed, regard the President's long defense of Lance as evidence of unreasonable stubbornness. Nonetheless, now that Lance is gone, they feel they have lost their only real friend in high Administration councils. Says General Electric Chairman Reginald Jones: "Bert Lance was one who was quite close to the President, never failed to return a call that was made to him, never failed to grant us an interview, and always was a conduit through which our thinking could...