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Looking back to my high school years I kick myself for not following my baseball career. I was pretty good, at sixteen I was playing semi pro-ball. I loved the game, but I missed the boat between working and running around with the wrong kids. I had no one to confide in, me coming from a poor family, we all had to work, and that was the important thing at the time...
Half of the sixteen-member board of trustees are former members of the alumni council, McGean said, adding that, "when one is a trustee, he must follow his conscience and not personal reasons...
...trio of Boston-bred seniors who have been monopolizing the winter sports pages since they were about sixteen. Captain Bill Russell Collins, at 6 ft 10 in., is the backbone of the Eagle defense. He's joined by high school cohorts Will Morrison and Bobby "Smooth" Carrington, a Keith-Wilkes-type-22-points-a-game cornerman...
...Classics are strong this year, stronger than last year's 21-4 team. Thirteen of last year's sixteen players are back (two have moved up to the varsity). And the club, which limits memebrship to sixteen so that everyone can play, checked out nearly sixty candidates for the three vacancies in this year's squad...
Neither can world protest be expected to effect any change in official Spanish policy toward the Basques. As in the case of the infamous Burgos trials of 1970, when sixteen Basques were sentenced--six received death sentences--after suspension of the right to counsel and the cancellation of court proceedings, the press covered the story, but then very quickly it became yesterday's news. There have been 71 executions of Basque patriots since 1970. A death the press did not make much of because it was not associated with any widely publicized political trial was that of 17-year...