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...There's two roadblocks," Haggerty said. "First is health...knock' on wood, and the second would be Dartmouth...
...Emily J. Wood '97 says she's happy with the no minimum balance at Cambridge Savings Bank...
...When I first came here I wanted to make sure all the services wouldn't disappear when I turned 19," Wood says. "I looked for [a bank] with no minimum balance because I can't maintain it," she says. "I chose Cambridge Savings Bank because they seemed like the easiest and my roommates sister had an account there and liked...
...ethic," says Cal Jr. "My dad did everything. He was not only the manager but also the pitching coach, the batting coach, the batting-practice pitcher, the ground keeper. And when he wasn't on the field, he was talking baseball." Cal Sr., whose face might have entranced Grant Wood, cracks a rare smile when he thinks back to his days in Asheville. "At the start of batting practice, I would plant the boys at the base of the outfield fence to shag flies and tell them, 'Don't move.' But as practice went on, I would see them inch...
DIED. EVELYN WOOD, 86, educator; in Tucson, Arizona. In a nation where faster is synonymous with better, the Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics Institute, with its promise to boost reading speed from a dilatory 250 words per minute to a galloping 1,500--or more--made its diminutive founder an unlikely star when the institute opened in Washington in 1959. Presidents sent their staffs to learn the technique, developed by Wood from her study of naturally up-tempo readers, who she noted read pages from top to bottom, taking in whole thoughts in a single eyeful. Stunts like a class...