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...accompanied by the state's Democratic Senators, George McGovern and James Abourezk. The South Dakotans were blasted off the court by the Olympic-class Cuban roundballers, but McGovern came home full of zeal for ending the 16-year-old trade embargo. Last week another U.S. group with a keen interest in that project went to Havana: 50 business leaders from Minnesota...
...very first Big Three golf match between Harvard, Yale and Princeton took place in 1897 and immediately began a keen rivalry that has been passed down to the present. Those early matches attracted a good deal of national attention. The pro ranks had not nearly attained their present stature. Many of the nation's leading amateurs were matriculated in the training school of Big Three golf...
...other meet results were a mixed bag, attesting to the keen competition displayed by both sides. Geoff Stiles nabbed a third place Crimson finish in the pole vault, and Harvard only managed to eke out second and third place showings in the hammer and weight throw events respectively...
Alan Lupo's Liberty's Chosen Home, a landmark study of the crisis precipitated three years ago by Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr.'s decision to implement integration by busing, attempts to deal with those questions and criticisms. Lupo, an experienced Boston-bred journalist with a keen eye for detail, does not present the reader with a completely seminal work. He repeats and amplifies some of the observations Harvard's Robert Coles and the lesser-known teacher and author Kim Marshall have made about Boston's problems with busing. On balance the value of his book is that it backs...
...traffic problems Normally, they would be referred to a councilor, but because the conservative Boston City Council is elected at-large instead of by districts, councilors can ignore requests from neighborhoods where they expect little support. So the representative's share of constituent services increases. Frank has a keen knowledge of city operations because of his work in the White administration and is able to deal efficiently with the problems his constituents bring to him. Vice-Mayor Edward T. Sullivan said last week, "We probably try to respond to Barney's legitimate request for services faster than most...