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...Minuteman coach Dick Bergquist expressed the consensus view about the senior Kelley when he asked for a saliva test on the second baseman after the game...
Rider after rider went out from the Common, heading down what is now Mass Ave, searching for the British. A few were captured; others didn't return. Just before dawn, with the royal forces only minutes away, a young Minuteman wheeled his horse into the Tavern yard screaming his report. The Minutemen assembled in two long, thin lines on the Common, neither blocking the road to Concord, nor backing down, in a symbolic stance by an outnumbered and outgunned militia...
Patriots Day was celebrated across the Bay State yesterday, in Lexington and Concord with parades and on Cambridge Common, where Cambridge Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55 delivered a traditional address. It was in Cambridge that Revere borrowed the horse that carried him to Lexington. In Cambridge Common, Minuteman and militia from around the Commonwealth camped, sealing the British in Boston. Gen. George Washington arrived to take command of the American troops--and within a year the starved-out British evacuated Boston...
...Harvard laxwomen fought to maintain the 4-4 tie, but they could not match the Minuteman teamwork. UMass freshman attack Whitney Thayer notched two unassisted tallies at 10:04 and 16:49 to clinch the contest...
Most of the bonanza has come not from defense work at all but from civilian contracting. Boeing has always been a vitally important supplier of high technology to the Pentagon, having produced, among other things, the Minuteman missile, the AWACS (airborne early warning radar system) and a space tug to carry satellites in NASA's Space Shuttle program. Other aerospace competitors, like McDonnell Douglas and Lockheed, do far more defense-related business. Boeing last year drew only about $1.5 billion, or 17% of total revenues, from Government contracts...