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...break-in was reported two nights ago at the main Building and Grounds maintenance yard. A steam shovel, a blowtorch, and 100,000 square feet of sod were the only items taken as a result of the heist, the first such heist of this scale in recent memory...
...Cozza has other things on his mind. The Elis had been practicing on a wet, snowy field in preparation for play on an icy, muddy Yale Bowl field. But the field was dry as a bone yesterday, with 100,000 square feet of new sod on the ground...
Student distaste--expressed in a meeting last week--for orange grass and impatience to restore the Quad lawn combined to send the "landscape architecture" project back to the drawing boards. Instead, contractors will start laying down normal green sod today and the lawn will be available for use within a week, said project manager Roger J. Cayer...
...while I was up in Milwaukee. Not bad for a little jerkwater town like this." Mayor for six years, he said he had been mayor for too long. "They complain about everything." He is paid $15 every time the town council meets. His Norwegian father was born in a sod shanty in 1883. His proudest bureaucratic achievement is a $6,000, 500-ft. concrete sidewalk that runs alongside Main Street, which is dirt. "That boy is mine too," said the mayor, pointing to another son, David, a trencherman about the size of a post office...
...different events, I also noticed something strange under my feet--the rubbery outdoor track. Gone are the days of slow sod and cinder tracks. Like in other sports, artificial compounds...