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...noteworthy political presence on camp is, but it is what Harvard's Robert Putnam calls a "tertiary association." Tertiary groups claim large memberships, but the only acts of membership most of the members perform are simple and remote, like writing a check or reading a weekly newsletter received via e-mail...
...accounts, Tommy Burks was a shoo-in for re-election to the Tennessee state senate. The five-term Democrat's law-and-order views resonated with the folks of rural Putnam County along with his distinctive country twang. Early last week, though, Burks was silenced, fatally shot in the head on his hog farm while readying his pumpkin patch for an annual visit from schoolchildren. After a few days' search and a night of questioning, police announced an arrest and a murder charge. The suspect: Byron Looper, the local tax assessor--and more important, Burks' opponent in the upcoming election...
According to OCS's Web site, the firm is not scheduled for a recruiting meeting on the 28th--only Anteros Capital Market; Putnam, Hayes, and Bartlett, Inc.; and Schroder and Company, Inc. are listed...
...Scott Berg writes in his superb biography, Lindbergh (G.P. Putnam's Sons; 640 pages; $30), "radio, telephones, radiographs and the Bartlane Cable Process could transmit images and voices around the world within seconds...For the first time, all of civilization could share as one the sights and sounds of an event--almost instantaneously and simultaneously...
...UMass--1st period: Putnam (8:31, U), 2nd period: Johnston (3:38, Browne), Lyons (2:22, Johnston); Harvard--2nd period: Fairbairn (13:31, Nagle). S: UMass--Tucker 6; Harvard--Cowan...