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...most American young men are registering. And the demonstrations are small. People realize the necessity of preparedness, of showing a united, unwavering visage to the vulture across the sea. Not only that, the economy is healthy. In real life, on the steps of the Lexington Post Office, young men are bullshit. Not just the young men who go to Harvard and spend their free time complaining about American imperialism but the kind of young men who work in gas stations, not DNA labs, over the summer...
BORN. To Phyllis George Brown, 30, former Miss America and TV personality, and Kentucky Governor John Y. Brown, 46, former Kentucky Fried Chicken king: an 8-Ib. 4-oz. son, her first child, his fourth; in Lexington, Ky. The parents, expecting a girl, had selected the name Pamela Louise, then settled on Lincoln...
...city's early years, like the College's were quiet and uneventful. Cambridge, rechristened in remembrance of England's foremost college on a river, spread out for miles to include Arlington, Lexington and Billerica. Since but one church was allowed for each community, these split off to form separate parishes as soon as there were enough residents to make commuting to services difficult. A corollary to this rule--state law required all churches to have a tavern within a few hundred feet, so independent towns had to be large enough to support their own grog shop...
Many supporters of the crown found it prudent to flee to Boston where they could remain safe behind royal lines, and Cambridge became the boundary with the British Empire. That boundary was reinforced in the spring 1775, when, after starting the Revolutionary War in Lexington and Concord, British soldiers retreated into Boston. Behind them, Minutemen closed off the peninsula, camping 16,000 strong on Cambridge Common for months. When the soldiers needed barracks, Harvard agreeably moved to Concord for about a year. When the soldiers needed baths, they took them in the Charles River, often Sutton notes, "with disregard...
...esteemed professor of statistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His wife Sheila, Vassar '60, is a highly valued editor at a university press. The marriage is an ideal balance of temperaments, love, devotion, respect and affection. There are two blossoming daughters, a homestead in Lexington, Mass., and a summer place on Cape...