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Tony and I have both gone through a lot since then. I continued my lackluster diamond career through high school varsity stint. My major chore was to keep the raindrops from falling on the bench while the regulars were out on the field. I finally quit the game when I realized the emotional strain it was causing and the lives it was ruining. All mine...
...service. He was with the state police from 1968 to 1972 and quit shortly after his squad-car windshield was apparently shot out from the inside when he was alone on patrol. His record also included the beating of a man he had arrested. After that, a brief stint as a tobacco salesman came and went amidst claims by his employers that a cache of cigarettes had mysteriously disappeared. Lawrence then managed to get a job as chief of the four-man police force in the small town of Vergennes; he left a year later, this time just before being...
After Krag decided not to concentrate in music, she did a short stint in anthropology and then, at the end of her sophomore year, switched into the biology department. Being a pre-med and a musician doesn't seem to cause any internal conflicts--she grew up with both interests and has always pursued them simultaneously. "When I was little I always wanted to be a vet," she says, and that desire, at some point, changed into a desire to be a doctor. She thinks now that she'd like to be a general practitioner or a gynecologist and obstetrician...
...found a wife and contentment as the Flyers won their divisional championship the first year. But Parent's wanderings had only begun. In 1971 the Flyers traded him to the Toronto Maple Leafs, where he became a protégé of Plante, then the Toronto goalie. That stint ended 18 months later when Parent bolted the Leafs to sign with the World Hockey Association's Miami Screaming Eagles. The only trouble was that Miami had no rink. "The only ice," recalls Parent, "was in a glass...
Neier, who is not a lawyer, was picked to lead the A.C.L.U. in 1970, following a six-year stint as head of the New York affiliate. By then, the 55-year-old civil liberties group had already begun to move away from its strictly legal approach. In the past, the A.C.L.U. had generally entered a civil liberties case by filing a brief as amicus curiae (friend of the court). In 1968 the organization turned to more direct action; its attorneys served as defense lawyers in the Spock conspiracy trial. In the face of internal disagreement, A.C.L.U. activists convinced colleagues that...