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...columnist for the Los Angeles Times, recently called attention to two full-page ads that appeared in TIME. One was for Antioch College, a small (under 2,000 students) liberal arts school in southwestern Ohio; the other was for an even smaller college in Wisconsin, VITERBO COLLEGE: BERKELEY WE AIN'T, its message began. What seemed to intrigue Smith was that two such small schools could afford such ads in a national magazine. He reported that when Raymond Colvig, the public-information manager for the University of California (and its Berkeley campus) saw the Viterbo ad, he wrote...
...Baby! This is me! Rockin' Robbie D! I'm so bad I make flowers die I make babies cry I take candy from babies and give dogs rabies and if that ain't bad the rain don't fall and that ain't all-biscuits ain't bread...
...hack off heads as if vengeance alone were the insurrection's aim. The de fenders of slavery respond as bloodily; more than 200 Negroes, most of them innocent, die in reprisal. U.S. slavery's only true revolt vanishes into the darkness before the Civil War. "It just ain't a race made for revolution, that's all," says a court officer smugly...
...game, and all that sort of thing. But soul doesn't pay bills, and if you ask me, all those people who try to mix up psychology and sports are just full of baloney. Just look at the way Green Bay won the Super Bowl game. And Dick Williams ain't no Vince Lombardi, whatever that means...
Harvard is losing its rep. Rumors have it that the Admissions Department is running scared because some of the best minds of this generation are passing up the golden opportunity to come to Harvard. "The action ain't in the East," one beeded guru was quoted as saying when he turned Harvard down for Berkeley...