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...neither has ever missed a smoking break. "Usually I smoke during exams," which seems curious until he reveals that he is a BU student, cross-registered because Caroline Bynum, the professor, is "the best." He does find, however, that at Harvard the exam atmosphere is "more intense, more panic-stricken," than at his university. At Harvard exams are "too academic." At BU he begins to implore, "they ask existential questions, you know, your personal understanding of God, that you can relate to a parish, or wherever you're going to end up." He grabs his thermos and he is gone...
Died. Anna Roosevelt Halsted, 69, oldest child and only daughter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt; of cancer; in New York City. When she was 15 and her father was stricken with poliomyelitis, the devoted Anna became his helper and ultimately his close associate. In 1926 she married Curtis B. Ball, a New York stockbroker, whom she divorced after eight years and two children. She next married John Boettiger, a Chicago Tribune correspondent and acrimonious critic of the New Deal. The couple moved to Seattle, where he became publisher of the Hearst Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and she edited the women...
...Juan Carlos-maintaining the fiction that Franco retained ultimate authority and might even recover from his illness. The trouble with the plan was that Juan Carlos, at least at first, would have none of it. He had served in such a temporary capacity in mid-1974, when Franco was stricken with phlebitis and was expected to die or retire. When Franco returned to office after a mere 45 days of hospitalization and recuperation, he abruptly elbowed the Prince aside. Humiliated, Juan Carlos vowed that if a similar situation ever arose he would accept office only on a permanent basis...
...bishop was a formidable opponent, but he was an astonishingly gentle proconsul who could intervene at St. Vincent's Hospital to let a suffering Taos Indian return to his people, or journey to the bedside of a fever-stricken old woman to feed her slices of roasted apple. His one personal indulgence was gardening...
...dramatic, extensive drive brilliantly engineered by our substitute hero pushes the Crimson on top as the third quarter draws to a close. A Princeton mistake, another Harvard touchdown, and you have a tension-packed victory. And a hero, who filled the shoes of a stricken leader better than you could have ever hoped. Observers quip that the injured star will have a tough time even getting his job back...