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...each football game (home and away), the men and women in white suits, the prop crew, escort The Big Drum onto the field at half-time. Besides lugging the monster drum around, they are responsible for its protection from various lunies and Yalies who sometimes try to knock it down or even steal...
...setting, the key characters, even the major prop were familiar. In Courtroom 2 of the federal Courts Building, where the first of the Watergate trials began more than four years ago, Judge John J. Sirica last week presided over the "last major decision I'll have to render in this long, difficult case." Having sentenced 17 Watergaters to prison terms, Sirica was ruling on petitions for leniency from the only ones who are still imprisoned-John Mitchell, H.R. (Bob) Haldeman and John Ehrlichman. At their trial, tape-recorded conversations in the Oval Office had sealed their convictions...
...captain Pete Hilton called the loss of Wilsterman "the key play of the game" because when the four-year A teamer was carried off the field Harvard lost their best forward, and had to move Carl Esterhay to prop and bring up B teamer Paul Robbins to play wing-forward...
...half year period, is the only current Harvard undergraduate who took part in the April 1972 takeover of Massachusetts Hall. The takeover by the 34 black students was the culmination of months of protest against Harvard's $13 million holding in the Gulf Oil Corporation, then a leading prop of the Portuguese colonial regime in Angola...
...works, about a quarter of the known total. But if it does not exhaust Matisse's achievement as découpeur, it offers an unstinted sense of buoyancy. Matisse liked to talk about the "beneficent radiation" of his color, of its power to heal, and he would prop up his paintings, like sun lamps, around the bed of a sick friend. In the National Gallery, in the sublime, undulating leaf patterns in green, blue and yellow that Matisse designed for the stained-glass windows of the Chapel of the Rosary in Vence, this radiation is almost enough to give...