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...many Atlantans it smacked of capricious cronyism when Maynard Jackson Jr., the city's black mayor, appointed A. Reginald Eaves as commissioner of public safety in 1974. A blunt-spoken black lawyer whose chief qualification for the job appeared to be his friendship with Jackson, a college classmate, Eaves seemed totally unqualified to command the city's 1,500-man police force, then struggling ineffectively against a crime surge that had made Atlanta one of the homicide capitals of the U.S. But today the top cop is being cheered more than he is being jeered-even by some...
Cornell guard Abby Lucas, who came off the bench for 12 points, fed Rex Parcells underneath for an easy hoop. Then Maynard Brown, who led Cornell with 19 points, popped from outside. Irion hit one of two freethrows for Harvard, but Cornell's reserve center, Kevin Cash, scored twice from the low post...
...writes, "The merest suspicion of discriminate assembly by students and housemasters raised the specter of an old Harvard of snobbish hauteur, the specter (oh, how hated!) of social class." The university spirit Aldrich wants ("a quality of self-confidence now always condemned as arrogance"), he finds in John Maynard Keynes's description of pre-World War I Cambridge University...
...Baloney," said Robert Maynard, a trustee of the committee and a Washington Post editorial writer. "He's trying to make us a partner in his calumny." Another trustee, Jack Landon, backed up Maynard. In the meantime, it remained unclear whether or not Felker had actually promised to make a contribution either to Schorr or the committee...
...frontline was not effective in terms of point production and in terms of rebounding," Coach Satch Sanders said. Brown and Cornell workhorses Bernard Vaughan and Maynard Brown tugged 43 rebounds off the backboards while the Crimson yanked down a middling...