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Building and Grounds (B&G) will reinstall fences and take other measures this spring to protect the sod planted on the Quad last fall, a department spokesman said yesterday...
Need a hired hand in Florida? Dial the Capitol in Tallahassee. Newly inaugurated Governor Robert Graham just took in $24 for an eight-hour day laying sod. "It's good for you psychologically. It cleans out the cobwebs of the day-today crises you normally deal with," says Graham, 42, who literally worked his way into office by spending 100 days of his campaign at odd jobs. Among them: scrubbing bedpans, covering a police beat, hefting fertilizer and tuning Toyotas. The idea was to "get in touch with the people" (and perhaps make voters forget his roots...
...just across the street from the White House. Bill Ruback flashed the word to his office to call Mrs. Myers and tell her the spruce was in place. She cried again when the phone call came. Out her front window she could see the empty spot covered with fresh sod. "It looks," she said later, "like a new patch on an old pair of trousers...
Earlier in the week, grounds personnel noticed burns in the turf around the 50-yard line. While replacing the area with sod, they discovered a wire leading into the ground and contacted University police, who called the bomb squad...
Sooner than you can lay down foul lines, unleashed dogs patrol the Yard dropping obstacles all over your potential basepaths. Before you can chalk in the coaching boxes, B & G fences off all the sod at Harvard into polygons, triangles, and other high school subjects...