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Diehl's genuine concern for the down-trodden young extends further than his ties with mercuric collegiate pheenoms who may rise to the galactic reaches of the NBA. His regular profession is that of probation officer. He invariably works with 17 to 23 year olds, who are mainly drug offenders. "It's kind of like officiating" he muses. "We have our successes and we have our failures but its also like officiating because we only know about our failures." On the side, Diehl conducts a five class clinic at Somerville High every year to prep young men for the ECAC...
...when it came down to the final game of the season Saturday night in Boston Garden between the best two teams in Division One, Harvard and Boston University, it was that time honored and well-trodden cliche that beat the Crimson: "the goaltender with the hot hand." In Saturday's case it was tournament MVP Eddie Walsh in the Boston University goal that backboned the Terriers' 4-2 championship victory...
...many Cambridge liberals identify incumbent Andrew T. Trodden with the election committee's conservative, allegedly anti-student stand, and Trodden is not likely to get any support from the City Committee's liberal majority...
...sweater or two and a raincoat, and boots for the thick mud that dries to dust again over night. If you arrive in August, the pink and white plastic streamers from the July first saint's day fiesta still flicker against the sky above the hard, dusty, goat-trodden roads...
...Eisenhower, a renovated Nixon-can appeal to enough groups to get elected. In a party that claims the allegiance of only 30% of the nation's voters, a divisive candidate inevitably goes down to defeat. Yet Agnew and the forces behind him are following the same well-trodden sectarian route that leads nowhere except to a certain ideological satisfaction. It would be an irony indeed if in the very year that Longtime Loser Richard Nixon finally joins the roster of the big winners, his party should start throwing away his hard-won gains...