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...site itself consists of an unusually broad expanse of empty land near the heart of metropolitan Boston. A few lone buildings await the bulldozer on the Triangle, which is currently covered by sterile ash-grey dirt, beer cans, auto parts, and other debris. The area has the appearance of being recently bombed out. The suggestion, seriously presented to the City council two months ago, that "victory gardens" be planted on the site while the land lies fallow, seems less than ludicrous...
...Nixon feels; he does not have the power he is supposed to have, nor is the glorious burden quite so appealing as in the advertisements. He sailed the evening waters of the Potomac River with only one aide. He went to Camp David alone on a rainy night. His lone excursion into the public domain was to the deck of an aircraft carrier, safe from doubters. The biggest White House event of the week was the dinner on the South Lawn for the P.O.W.s, a reassuring evening of mutual tribute to the old days of courage...
...graduated 72 students; a new class of 600 will start the six-month, eight-hour-a-day course this fall. Perot says he prefers clean-cut ex-Navymen like himself. "I want people to identify with me, to create a closely knit team, rather than the lone wolves that characterize Wall Street," he says. Every duPont graduate has to sign a definitive employment contract that constrains him from leaving the firm for at least a year. But Perot can freely fire those employees who stray from the code of the pack...
...itself "the grand inquest of the nation," decides by a simple majority whether to impeach, the equivalent of an indictment. If it does, the Senate becomes "the high court of impeachment," and conducts the trial; it can convict by a two-thirds majority of those present. Andrew Johnson, the lone President to be impeached, escaped conviction by one vote (35-19) after he attempted to fire his popular Secretary of War in defiance of a new law that forbade...
Colgate had been seeking admission to the league because it is faced with a shrinking field of athletic competitors. Lahar said that Colgate's opponents have been joining other leagues, leaving Colgate a lone independent...