Word: schoolyard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Murray Schoolyard Classic in Chicago that I saw him again at about the end of July, the summer after freshman year. His team had just won the tournament and he was MVP, but he didn't have any time to hang around and talk to his groupies, like me. He was off to another tournament. He was playing in two most of the summer. And working at MacWillie's camp, and running and lifting weights. "If I don't do it this year. I might as well forget it," he explained...
...basketball talents include a refugee from the varsity and a couple of stars of the 1981-82 Ivy j.v. championship squad along with an ex-oarsman, an ex-varsity baseball pitcher and a varsity volleyball player, to name a few. That's physical--and as exciting as a local schoolyard contest...
Lucey, the former governor of Wisconsin and ambassador to Mexico until 1979, has spent many years fighting uphill battles for his beliefs. A lifelong Democrat--he got into a schoolyard fight at age 10 for his support of Al Smith--Lucey worked to build up Wisconsin's Democratic party in the '50s, a time when the state was solidly Republican. He was an advisor to the presidential campaigns of John F. Kennedy '40 and Robert Kennedy '48, served as Eugene McCarthy's floor manager at the Chicago convention of 1968, and held the post of deputy campaign manager...
...hundred percent," says Glenn. "I don't want Johnson or any of the rest of them to put so much as one toe inside our house." Cut to a weepy but relieved Annie Glenn, then cut back to the other astronauts rallying around their comrade and strutting like schoolyard princes...
...finally spur us into taking action that would check such Soviet atrocities--another massacre of 269 innocent individuals? Only in this way will the Soviet Union realize it can't shatter any and all human rights institutions with impunity. Let's stand up to this bully and make our schoolyard safer for all Christopher...