Word: lincoln
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Nino Fennoy, a saintly coach of the kind these neighborhoods always seem to inspire, steered her through a series of Junior Olympics championships and a busy career of basketball and volleyball at Lincoln High. An admirer of the great Tennessee State track coach Ed Temple, Fennoy had been keeping an eye out for his own Wilma Rudolph. The pigtails, the skinny legs, the scraped knees were not his signal. "It was the smile," he says. Coach Fennoy required her to keep journals on the teams' small road trips and monitored her syntax and spelling. "Where you're going," he told...
...girls' basketball team at Lincoln went 62-2 her last two years, and Jackie was All-State. Escorted by her father, the man who had finished high school with an armful of babies, she went to UCLA on a basketball scholarship. She would make the Bruins' all-time list in practically every category: fourth in rebounds, eighth in scoring, tenth in assists. In 1981, in the middle of Jackie's freshman season, Mary died of meningitis after an illness that lasted one day. She was just 38. "Her determination," Jackie says, "passed to me." Leaning on a UCLA assistant track...
...hockey team's dynasty should remain intact. A number of prospects will hope to crack the women's ice hockey starting line-up and send Harvard to its third straight Ivy title. The recruits include: Cici Clark of South Hamilton, Mass.; Sandra Colt of Wenham, Mass.; Elizabeth Hanson of Lincoln, Mass.; Courtney Hurley of Lloyd Harbor, N.Y.; Lauren Messmore of Hartford, Conn.; Virginia Simon of Manchester, Mass.; Beverley Stickles of Concord, Mass. and Sandra White of Saugas, Mass...
This purposefulness and focus on the future have stripped some of the levity from the freshman experience. "They're more serious about their education," says Andristine Robinson, associate dean of students at Pennsylvania's Lincoln University. "I see better grades coming out," she says, but she also found that many of last year's freshmen skipped extracurricular activities because they "wanted to get their studies together first." For students who have just survived the brutal college-entrance marathon, this competitive atmosphere is all too familiar. But others, accustomed to being stars in high school, find themselves feeling lost...
...Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk called the account "utter nonsense." Jack Valenti, a loyal friend who served Johnson in the White House for three years, suggested that almost anything written about Johnson, including Goodwin's story, was true at one time or another. "He was the same as Lincoln, Napoleon, Churchill and other notable leaders," Valenti retorted. "He was an elemental force. He was eccentric. He used words and body language as weapons. He kept people off guard. But he knew what he was doing all the time...