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...season, Walton has left in a fury of lawsuits against the team, its trainer and doctor over treatments with pain killers. Maurice Lucas, the power forward who had provided muscle and meanness under the boards, was locked in an acrimonious contract dispute with Portland's owner. Guard Lionel Hollins, ball-handler and playmaker nonpareil, also wrangled with management; he and Lucas were soon traded. Their running mate, Dave Twardzik, stumbled about the court, a man suddenly severed from a rare athletic symbiosis. Forward Bobby Gross was injured for most of the season, and when he did play...
Upperclassmen living in Adams, Claverly, Kirkland, Winthrop and parts of Leverett, North and South Houses, as well as freshmen living in Greenough, Hurlbut, Lionel, Massachusetts, and Mower Halls, will benefit from the new measure. Mather House has had thermostats in its rooms since it was built...
Tall (6 ft. 4 in.) and a basketball player during his college years in Texas, Acker started in the tire and battery business, served as a vice president of Lionel D. Edie & Co. investment advisers, and then switched to the airline industry in the 1960s. He became president of Braniff in 1970, and in 1977 was named chairman of Air Florida. By slashing fares and expanding service, he increased Air Florida revenues from $7.8 million in 1977 to $161.2 million last year. The formerly small intrastate line now flies to 43 cities, including London and Amsterdam...
Perhaps the situation was best summed up in an exchange between Rightist Christian Bonnet and Socialist Lionel Jospin. said Bonnet: "First France changed pilots and now it has changed planes." Added Jospin: "You're correct, but you forgot to say why. The pilot paid no attention to the passengers and the seats were uncomfortable." The metaphors now give way to reality. Will the plane...
...mail piles up. There was the incident when Grover Cleveland was made to appear a lackey of Great Britain because Sir Lionel Sackville-West, then British Ambassador, was tricked into writing a letter stating that in the election of 1888 England favored the Democrats. There was the famous (and forged) Zinoviev letter, supposedly a directive from Moscow to the British Communist Party, that toppled the government of Ramsay Mac Donald. There was the Zimmermann telegram that pushed the U.S. into the first World War, and the letter General Douglas MacArthur sent Congressman Joe Martin from Korea indirectly attacking the Truman...