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...women cagers took the scenic route to Boston's South Shore yesterday and came away with a 74-28 walloping of Eastern Nazarene College...
...creation is now so close to the top. The country is Ireland; its method of generating employment is to lure private investment, mostly from the U.S.; and its Pied Piper for industry is a former Gaelic football and hurling player, Michael Killeen. He is a man of Donegal, that scenic but tragic county in Ireland's west that sent so many of its youth to America (including four of Killeen's uncles and aunts) because they could not find work. Today, at 50, he heads Ireland's Industrial Development Authority, which has transformed the economy of that...
First, though, I had to pass through scenic New Jersey, scenic southern Pennsylvania, scenic Ohio--ah, the natural wonders of the interstate highway system, with three squalling brats across the aisle as background music. Still, this was the price of cheap transportation west. Anxious to reach the wide open spaces, I stayed on the bus as state after state rolled by, telling myself I would get off when I reached America, the old "When it's right, you know it" type thing. Indiana merged into Illinois, which metamorphosed into St. Louis, Missouri and Oklahoma...
...enter Johnston Gate from Mass. Ave. you will be facing scenic, park-like Harvard Yard. Well, not so scenic this year, because they will be digging up the water pipes underneath it. But don't despair, even here the shadow of the New England past can be seen, because the pipe-diggers have uncovered a load of Indian artifacts in their trenches. As the archaelogists sift through the dirt you might contemplate the ironies of the Indians' situation relative to Harvard. The tradition here is very much the white man's layered over everything that had the impunity to come...
...a.m.The new Freshman Dean's Office, situated on scenic Prescott Street (would you believe they dragged an entire house across the campus?), is scheduled to be open. That is, if they finish putting it together in time. But they may not, in which case their office will still be in University Hall, that Bullfinch-designed bastion of deans and suckups. Either way, they will be open, but you should...