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...cold and the eternal winds. It was a time to be philosophical; at least no one was shooting at them. In Sarajevo, members of a student volunteer brigade goofed and joked as they worked without undue haste at shoveling snow from the center of Kosevo Stadium. Mirjan Jarovije-vic, 15, a student at the Yaroslav Cernyi technical school, took the arrival of a visitor as a splendid opportunity to lean on his shovel and sneak a smoke. He said he had been chosen for the work detail because he was so smart that he would not fall behind in school...
...such seditious talk and decided to crack down. The suspected conspirators were arrested and, after a thorough investigation, roughly one-quarter of them, including Dostoevsky, were publicly sentenced to death. As orchestrated by Nicholas, the firing squad was called off at the last minute, with the first three vic tims already bound to their stakes. Dostoevsky learned that the Tsar had lightened his punishment to four years at hard labor and then an indefinite enlistment in the Russian army...
...tradition has not always been part of The Game, according to Vic Gatto '59, who caught a two-point conversion pass in the waning moments to help Harvard overcome a 29-13 deficit and tie Yale, 29-29 in 1968. The radicalism of the 1960s was not conducive to The Game's traditions, he recalls...
Boston television personalities Bob Lobel and William Coughlin will provide commentary along with Brian Dowling (Yale '69) and Vic Gatto...
...dispute," Leon Schwab, 72, the brother of Founder Jack, decided it was better to close than sell. For its many loyal patrons, news of the demise was a real Hollywood tearjerker. "Everybody's trying to figure out where they're going to gather," said Alice Co-Star Vic Tayback, a Schwab's regular for 15 years. Nursing a final sundae, Schwab was nostalgic: "You know who called the other day? Barbara Stanwyck. She said, 'I want to thank you for taking care of me for 35 years.' " He sighed, still star struck after all these...