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Until early in the second half, the contest looked like it would be a fight to the finish. Harvard held a 2-1 advantage after the first quarter on goals by freshman Gary Pedroni and Bill Forbush. Pedroni started on attack along with fellow Yardling Mike Ward and veteran Steve Martin, while Chico MacKenzie made his second start on midfield and early-season star Pete Predun sat on the bench...
...Ward finally broke the Harvard drought at 10:32 of the final quarter, but Boltja fired home his sixth of the afternoon less than a minute later to make sure no late rally developed...
Carter's chief economic adviser, Charles Schultze, a longtime liberal, detailed the case for restraint. Pinning his projections mainly on expansion in that old Republican ward, the private sector, Schultze projected economic growth totaling 22% over a five-year period, creating 9.7 million jobs and reducing unemployment from its current level of 7% to 4.3% by 1981. At the same time, the inflation rate (now above 6%) would be pared to just over 4%. Growth alone, said Schultze, would allow Carter to balance the budget, but federal spending could not be permitted to increase much more than...
SEVENTY YEARS AGO Boston consisted of several petty fiefdom controlled by ward-level political machines. Martin "Mahatma" Lomasney in the West End, John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald in the North End, and James Michael Curley himself, patriarch of the South End, plundered the city despite the efforts of the Good Government reformers, the goo-goos. Frustrated because the dominant Irish voters consistently supported the machines, the goo-goos resorted to state intervention to attack corruption. One of the state-imposed safeguards was the Boston Finance Commission, a watchdog agency consisting of five Boston residents appointed by the governor "to investigate...
...crucial first half was all UMass. The visitors roared out to a quick lead on goals by Norm Smith, Terry Keefe and Menna, before MacKenzie and Ward countered for the 17th-ranked Crimson. Then UMass put the game away by ripping of five straight markers and then, after Pedroni got the first of the day, shutting out the Crimson in the second quarter while Spooner and Smith were stretching the bulge...