Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...video production crew is preparing a video tape of a play co-authored by a Harvard undergraduate and hope to show it on local television, Thomas A. Kramer '78, the co-author, said yesterday...
Each of the last two seasons has been capped off by international tours. Two years ago the Classics travelled to Puerto Rico to play the Puerto Rican National Team as well as a local penitentiary squad whose inmates viewed the courtyard spectacle from their cell windows. Last year the team flew to Portugal during spring break to play a national team made up of Portuguese All-Stars...
...their most recent game the Classics defeated the Holy Cross J.V., 74-58, behind Gordon "Big Spit" Johnson's 23 points. Johnson, who keeps a good-sized chaw in his mouth before ballgames, hates to ride the subway to local contests because he can only exercise his nickname when the train stops and the doors open at various stations...
Death Wish. A wet-dream for closet vigilantes. In the opening scenes, the wife and daughter of a New York City professional (Charles Bronson) are raped and murdered by a couple of errand boys from the local grocery. Bronson can't get any satisfaction from the law; this is the City, where things like this happen every day, remember? But Bronson has never been one to take pointless injustice lying down, nossir. So he takes the law into his own hands, and the fans go wild. No kidding: I saw this movie on New York's upper west side...
...commonplace to note that crises bring out the best in societies, and--in that sense at least--last week's extended snow emergency provided no surprises. Swift and effective action by state authorities, aided by cooperation all the way down the line of local government, helped prevent a difficult situation from becoming a catastrophe of monumental proportions. In the same way, the University's handling of the early days of the emergency prevented the situation at Harvard from deteriorating. All those involved rightly deserve high praise, not only for knowing how to face a terrible disaster, but also for realizing...