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...woke up when the phone rang, flattered to find that the call was for me. Wendy, a friend of Darn's, wanted to go roller skating that afternoon, and could I drive over and pick her up? Sure, I said, reveling in my temporary possession of the '57 Chevy...
Shortly after Yale's all-time leading scorer, Dan Poliziani, went off for a hold 20 seconds into period three, the Harvard powerplay woke up to tie the game at one. A low Alan Litchfield snapshot from the point beat Tortorella to the glove side at 1:56, and from then on it was hold-onto-your-helmet hockey...
...Landry, 21, a student at Boston's Northeastern University. Said she of life in an unheated apartment: "Before I went to bed I put on sweat pants, long Johns, four sweaters and three pairs of socks. On top of that I had blankets and a quilt. I still woke up and was so cold I cried." In New Hampshire, where nearly a foot of snow fell in two days, the storms' dangers were taken seriously: firemen in Nashua (pop. 67,865) urged that the town's schoolchildren be conscripted for a day to shovel out buried hydrants...
DAWN GORE, a 31-year-old Native American woman from Holyoke, Massachusetts, entered Franklin County Public Hospital in Greenfield in 1969 for an appendectomy. She woke up in the recovery room with her doctor standing at her beside. While still in an anesthetic haze, she listed as her doctor explained that he had removed her appendix. Then, she cried as she learned that her doctor had also without her consent removed her fallopian tubes because he felt she already had enough children. At the time, she was a twenty-one year old mother of three. Unable to bear the male...
...teams dawdled through a quarter of an hour of ice time before Harvard woke up with a too-little, too-late flurry in the final minute. Bob Darling's empty-netter removed all doubt at 19:30, and Harvard's record dropped to 2-2, while the Terriers improved to 2-1-1 (1-1-1 ECAC...