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Without Carter, Westfield was unable to keep up with Harvard's fast-paced game. Their defense, which was a middle-clogging zone in the first half, shifted to a man-to-man effort in the second half. Without Carter to slough off and block the lane, Harvard drove through the Westfield defense with ease...
McGlade stumbled in her first contest, 9-15, then muscled her way to convincing 15-10, 15-11 and 15-7 triumphs over Barbara Gross. Freshman Becky Tung was totally ruthless at number seven as she bounced over Sue Slough...
...late in life, in the dark of defeat, in spite of all his energy and competence, which lay like ashes in his mouth. There is no evidence that his religion has warped his politics. More likely, from the history of it, Carter's rise out of his spiritual slough made him a better democrat: he let go of pride, discovered the resource of prayer, knew the thrill of God's presence in his fumbling first tries at simple charity. Above all, he came to believe in and espouse those counsels of perfection that lend life its gallantry...
Three white men wearing nylon stocking masks leaped out, one of them waving two guns, and ordered Ray to stop. Two of them boarded the bus, drove it into Berenda Slough, a dry ditch off the road, and steered it into a thicket of bamboo. The gunmen then herded the driver and the 26 children-aged 5 to 14-into two vans. When that was done, the three men drove off with their terrified captives. Thus began a bizarre and, at week's end, still unexplained kidnaping that riveted the nation's attention for 36 hours...
...saying, "Hey, the little guy isn't home yet." Assuming that the bus had broken down, Tatom sent people out to check the route. They found nothing, and Tatom, now thoroughly concerned, called police. Not until 7:30 did a local pilot sight the bus, hidden in the slough. Police sped to the site and found the bus deserted; the only real clues were two extra sets of tire tread marks near by. Concern turned to alarm...