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...Opera to marry him in 1920, the lanky Boston Democrat once said: "It's all very simple. We're what we were from the first time we met-sweethearts." Avoiding the Washington social whirl, they breakfasted together every morning, never spent a night apart. When she was stricken last year, McCormack refused to leave her side, and occupied an adjoining room at the hospital...
...sure, the "islands in the sky" have drawbacks. For one, children must be constantly watched lest they play too close to the building's edge. For another, rooftop residents so prize their quarters that even when sick or poverty-stricken they hesitate to seek health or welfare services from the government. They fear that they would get landlords in trouble by calling attention to their unauthorized occupancy, or that conventional tenants would object if they heard of disease in the hovels above them...
...usual, the opener should serve more as a polishing opportunity than as a real test of the stuff of which the 1971 Harvard squad is made. Holy Cross, the team Harvard edged 13-0 two years ago (a week before the Crusaders were stricken with an epidemic of hepatitis), had a resounding 0-10-1 record last season...
...usual, the opener should serve more as a polishing opportunity than as a real test of the stuff of which the 1971 Harvard squad is made. Holy Cross, the team Harvard edged 13-0 two years ago (a week before the Crusaders were stricken with an epidemic of hepatitis), had a resounding 0-10-1 record last season...
...massacre" is a role that Calley has endured for almost 2½ years. He seems candid enough in his portrayal of the jokes (four marriage proposals by mail) and pains of being alternately public menace or martyr. He conceives of himself now as a reflection of a conscience-stricken nation. "I must be a reflection they'll want to look at." As his trial began, Calley, says to himself, "I had a greater responsibility than the prosecutor." Every time television cameras turned on him, Calley thought: "I've got a big piece of spinach between my teeth...