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Hughes, Purdy, and Murray are all standouts on the Harvard varsity hockey team. Fishing is a pleasant diversion for them in the off-season. Murray happened to work with Zewinski last summer at Buildings and Grounds. Zewinski forms the team just once every year for the tournament, and asked Murray to join this year. Murray then contacted Hughes and Purdy and the Crimson fishing team had its starting roster for 1978. Although he has netted a lot more goals than bass in his lifetime, Purdy declared his three days in Nova Scotia, "the best athletic experience...
...halfbacks--with newcomer freshman Robert Fritz a pleasant surprise--controlled midfield with intelligent short passing amongst themselves or longer passes to the wings. Freshman wing Mauro Keller Sarmiento played superbly when not dribbling too much, as Ford exhorted him to "turn 'em inside out" from the sideline. Goalie Billy Blood had his finest game of the season, looking comfortable in his role as Fred Herold's replacement...
There is a lot of talent on this team -- among many strengths that can be cited, freshmen Mauro Keller Sarmiento and Peter Sergienko have been pleasant surprises, and two more freshmen are expected to play today...
...after all. Before that happened--before the well-meaning crowd of mourners that had gathered to give their friend a good Irish wake had been so rudely interrupted by the sight of the corpse singing and dancing and leading the cheers--the party at Anthony's had been a pleasant one. No outsiders, no political manipulators, certainly no big-name media types--they were all over at Dukakis's. The reporters who were there, like myself, had come prepared to write a short piece about the loser. And, of course, Eddie's friends were there...
...wait--what about Tommy O'Neill?" (Tip O'Neill's son, cautious and pleasant but maybe not the brightest guy who ever lived?) "He has to run with Ed King--you can't vote separately for Lieutenant Governor and Governor in Massachusetts--so if Hatch wins, he'll be washed up. Old Tip won't like that. And he certainly won't want Mike Dukakis, the man who helped destroy his son's rise to the governorship, to get a Cabinet post. He won't even want to see Dukakis in Washington." "So if Carter knows what's good...