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After Sara graduated from New Canaan Country Day school in ninth grade, she enrolled in the Hotchkiss School in northwestern Connecticut and played varsity field hockey for three years. To cap off her high school career, she was elected captain her senior year...
...authorities were mystified about the voyage of La Nativité. Two of the survivors, all of whom were brought to Miami's Krome Ave nue North Detention Center, where 1,300 other Haitian refugees are being held, first claimed they had come via the Bahama Islands. They left Cap-Haïtien in northern Haiti on Aug. 26, they said, and spent the next 31 days sailing through the Bahamas; they subsisted by catching crabs to eat and licking the rainfall off leaves, until finally setting off Oct. 18 on the last leg of their journey...
Members of the School Committee and the school administration have warned that unless the city finds some way of overriding the spending cap imposed by Proposition 2 1/2, schools may not be able to open next September for lack of teachers. Cambridge mayor and school committee chairman Francis H. Duehay '55 says that the system will have to work with the state legislature to modify Prop. 2 1/2 and at the same time find other sources of revenue. Otherwise, the anticipated cuts might "destroy the school system," Duehay adds. Superintendent of schools William C. Lannon, has made much the same...
...panics and quits on the spot," says Officer Byers. The younger guards, on the other hand, contend that each shift captain makes up his own rules for running the cell blocks. Prisoners seem baffled by the inconsistency. One convict was thrown into solitary for wearing a knit cap and tennis shoes; others have been handcuffed to their beds for little apparent reason. Says John Palladini, a discharged New Mexico convict who has served time in four federal prisons: "New Mexico is worse than any place, since the harassment is irrational. There's no consistency. There's only vindictiveness...
...with his initiative hi developing new fields in locales from Louisiana to Saudi Arabia, once ranked him with independent Oil Tycoons J. Paul Getty and H.L. Hunt; of a heart ailment; in Houston. An unpretentious man who never had a chauffeur (but who occasionally donned a chauffeur's cap to drive his wife around in a limousine), "Big John" at times was estimated to be worth more than $200 million, but in 1970 filed two bankruptcy petitions. Out of that period of reorganization emerged a Houston-based oil firm, John W. Mecom Co., with Mecom as chairman...