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...strange and wonderful disease, CHARITYITIS, is running rampant in the Harvard area. CHARITYITIS causes a rare reaction in the female: she is overcome with an uncontrollable urge to ask the male for a date! Symptoms: wildly palpitating heart. Extreme euphoria. A sense of delicious abandon...
Although the President primarily came to listen, I hope that he will do his very best to convince De Gaulle to abandon his continuous European sabotage, which is very helpful to Communism and a threat to the existence of mankind...
...some form, despite the bitter criticism that that course would draw. To do otherwise would amount to a vote of no confidence in the military and undercut Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, who has come out in favor of the ABM. In the highly unlikely event that Nixon chose to abandon this system, he would come under heavy fire from those Americans who voted for him at least in part because he promised to guarantee clear U.S. military superiority over the Soviet Union. To steer a cautious middle course between continuing the project as laid out by the Johnson Administration...
Several of Brown's arguments are deja vu-- they have already been heard before and settled. After long consultations during the fall, the course leaders decided to abandon plans for a system of "nonsense" grading in some sections, and agreed to grade "evaluatively," according to the department's own criteria. Suddenly, Brown raises the grading issue again. Again, the "qualified" section man argument goes back to July, when the department agreed to have persons other than Soc Rel graduate students teach sections if they were not paid. Again, this issue was settled with 148 in the fall...
...least that was what was supposed to happen. Once the first of eight twelve-minute periods got going, however, the action quickly developed into a free-for-all. Whirling around the track at 30 m.p.h., the skaters shoved, tripped and slugged one another with abandon. The Braves' Ronnie Robinson, Sugar Ray's son and the villain on the current tour, repeatedly locked his arm around an opponent's head and then flipped seat-first onto the track, apparently crunching the noggin under his bottom. He also excelled at kicking rivals in the mouth with his skates...