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There is a good side and a bad side to the dozens and dozens of suntanners, bikini-clad and oiled, who crowded Boston University's Nickerson Track yesterday during the final day of the women's Greater Boston Track and Field Championships. The good side is that it was the largest number of spectators to grace a women's track meet all year. The bad side is that only sporadically did the intent ray-catchers take note of the races going on around them--so much so that the officials had to ask them to turn the music down when...
...preaching his gospel abroad. But last month--after nearly eight months of preparation--the symbolic leader of American evangelism brought his crusade home. His current, two-month evangelical campaign will sweep through eight major cities in six New England states. And when the crusade culminates at Boston University's Nickerson Field next month, more than 100,000 people are expected to pack the stadium to hear Graham spread the gospel he has been preaching since...
When Graham speaks, at Nickerson Field, and 100,000 people gather, many of them won't be there because of Graham's new political message. They will be there because they want to hear the gospel according to the man who has been preaching it since 1939. While his two-month crusade will focus attention on the rapidly growing ecumenical involvement in the nuclear disarmament movement, the main force behind its scope is a new, nationwide rise in mainstream, moderate evangelism...
...comedy of errors; neither team seemed to want a victory. But in the end, before a less-than-capacity crowd of 87 at Boston University's Nickerson Field, the J.V. Terriers made fewer miscues, and downed the Harvard J.V. football team 9-0, lowering the Crimson's mark...
...They were found by the brig Indian, February 17, 1821, 450 miles off the coast of Chile, having sailed 3,500 miles. The captain's boat was also saved, but the third whaleboat, with its crew of six, was never found. Nickerson's account of what happened in the captain's boat...