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McGovern sits in his office surrounded by stuffed pheasants and distinguished service awards (one from the National Limestone Institute). "I don't have any trouble sleeping," he says. "I'm doing what I want to do." He is modishly dressed in wide collar and thick tie, yet talks...
WHEN TWAIN, or Norris, or Bret Harte wrote of California's San Joaquin Valley, they wrote of burgeoning industry and pioneer ranchers: of a group of men who strove ruthlessly to throttle natural resources for their own profit. In Fat City, Leonard Gardner speaks only of status and decay, and...
In 1932, the Norris-La Guardia Act stopped federal judges from issuing anti-strike injunctions against the struggling unions of the time. In 1962, the Supreme Court held that the statute even protected walkouts barred by no-strike agreements in union contracts. But last week, in a rare move, the...
Budding Dynasty. Orr runneth over with other cups. He won the Ross trophy with a record (for a defenseman) 33 goals and a record (for anybody) 87 assists and 120 points during the season, the Hart trophy as the N.H.L.'s most valuable player, the Norris trophy as the...
Through its first 16 games, 13 of which the Elis lost. Yale's squad was perhaps the worst team in New England. Yale's pitching staff had a 5.48 team ERA. The Elis' two leading pitchers, Jim McNerney and Jerry Norris, had dropped eight straight games and had compiled 6.97...