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...much the same as it was when it began. And although a woman cadet in undershirt and trousers remarks that the full-dress parade she has just marched in was "a pain in the ass," few question the traditions. Fullerton puts on the plume that marks the second lieutenant rank he holds in the United States Army and straightens his coat for the parade. "We were all civilians once, too," he says. "It's not as hard as it looks." Another cadet who has less than a year to go says, "It's a whole different world...
Life returned to peace and profitability in the next few decades, as speculators and developers began to lay the base for the 19th century expansion that should turn Cambridge from a town into a city of the first rank. Andrew Craigie created East Cambridge out of almost nothing, purchasing acres of land through straw buyers on Lechmere Point. The success of his development was assured when he persuaded the county officials, over the loud protests of the "Old Cantabrigians," to move the county buildings to their present location, well out in East Cambridge. And the Neck was slowly being transformed...
Fortinsky said that O'Neill's call to Democratic Anderson supporters to rally behind Carter has had no effect on rank-and-file Democrats for Anderson, who are "very, very hostile towards the president...
Jerry S. Fortinsky '83, Anderson's Harvard coordinator and a Democrat, said yesterday that more than half of Anderson's campus workers are disaffected Democrats. He added that he expects even more rank-and-file Kennedy workers to join the independent, but said he believes many are "exhausted from the Kennedy push...
...started big on Monday night with 70 million watching, and was still going strong at week's end as newspapers alertly provided daily plot summaries. The total audience: some 125 million. NBC President Fred Silverman may just turn his network around after all, and Shogōn may rank behind Roots I and II as television's most successful miniseries...