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...disastrous frame came in the fourth inning against Northern Colorado, when Harvard's vaunted defense sprang terminal leaks. After an infield error and a sacrifice, an easy fly ball to center-fielder Leon Goetz turned a routine jam into a disaster. Goetz dropped the ball for the inning's second error, then picked it up and threw to relay man Rick LaCivita. Catcher Dan Williams couldn't find the handle on LaCivita's perfect strike to the plate and Northern Colorado had a two-run stake...
Thirty years ago, the interned Japanese-most of them U.S.-born or relatively assimilated-tried to turn Tule Lake into an American small town. Boy Scout troops and English classes sprang up, as well as softball and basketball leagues. Christian and Buddhist churches were formed and young people danced the jitterbug and the foxtrot under the eyes of watchful parents...
...catch on in the late '50s in the South and Midwest, but the real boom began in the late '60s with the decline of the inner cities and the rising fear of crime. In the Washington, D.C., area, notes Actor Walt Lachman, a dozen suburban restaurant-theaters sprang up after the riots of 1968. "The white middle-class dollar was not coming downtown after that," says Lachman, "and the theater needs that suburban dollar to survive...
When Peter H. York '74 awoke early Sunday morning--at just after 2 a.m. in fact--his Lowell House room was an inferno. Searing flames burst from a closet door, singeing his hair, and when he put his left hand on the wall in making an escape, large blisters sprang from his palm. During York's panicky exit through a first floor window in Lowell's O-entry, he further cut his left hand and right forearm...
...then a rocket sprang and bang shot blind and O! then the Roman candle burst and it was like a sign of O! and everyone cried O! O! in raptures and it gushed out of it a stream of rain gold hair threads and they shed and ah! they were all greeny dewy stars falling with golden, O so lively! O so soft, sweet, soft...