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Rounding out the field is New Yorker Russell Long, 24, son of Sumner , ("Huey") Long, a well-known shipping broker and ocean racer. The blond, blue-eyed Russell was crewing by age seven, but it was not until last year that he skippered a twelve, Turner's old Independence. Convinced that he could be competitive himself if only his boat were a little faster, Long raised $500,000 and stripped Independence for parts. The result: the deep blue Clipper and a helmsman brash enough to be Turner's son. "Ted peaked out in 1977," says Long...
...flown away--true but meaningless. When pressed, Harvard admits that the reason they have never broken city zoning is because it has never before applied to them. For example: Harvard is currently converting 7 Summer Rd., a residential apartment building, to office space. On the city's zoning books, Sumner Rd. is designated cl, which does not allow office use. So how can the University claim never to have broken zoning laws? Schmidt explains that "educational institutions are not prohibited from putting offices there." He is absolutely correct; until the legislature repealed zoning exemptions last year, educational institutions were...
...paper wall erected around its current campus. Chances are, had the exemption been repealed 15 years ago. Mather House would not have been built. Certainly Harvard would have had a much more difficult time constructing the Radcliffe Gym, which powerless neighbors squawked about to small avail. And 7 Sumner Rd. would probably still be an apartment building--and nothing else...
...meal. Ella Deal has borne children and, with her husband Leonard, has tended sheep here for nearly 40 years. She is a descendant of Navajos who returned from the terrible "Long Walk" of 1864, when the U.S. cavalry herded 8,000 tribesmen 400 miles, from northern Arizona to Fort Sumner in eastern New Mexico. When snow piled up higher than the hogan roof a dozen years ago, she rode horseback through the blizzard eight days to watch over her sheep, losing half her hearing to frostbite. Ella Deal's life, too, moves to nature's seasonal and spiritual...
...Seven Sumner Rd., a four-story brick apartment building a block from the Yard, has become an unlikely symbol of Harvard's push outward into surrounding residential neighborhoods...