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Some 1 million keyed-up rock fans poach under the midday sun at the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. There are 600 police officers at your disposal, but you still face the classic problem of transporting the feature star to center stage without getting him mobbed. If you are Lieut. Colonel James Hackett, 50, of the St. Louis police force, you enlist that myopic master of outrageous disguise from Middlesex, England, Reginald Kenneth Dwight. In standard police clothing and cruiser, Hackett and Dwight then casually drive the 15 blocks to the Gateway Arch. Once backstage, Dwight looks around, then begins...
...from all sections of the Boston Garden, where 14 flags of championship glory fly, a thunderous chant came rolling down onto the court: "BEAT L.A.! BEAT L.A.! BEAT L.A.!" The Celtic fans last night surrendered with honor and sent their heroes' arch-rivals on to the NBA finals with the support the Sisters deserve...
...Many other words can be handily tilted by shortening, by prefixes and suffixes, by the reduction of formal to familiar forms. The word politician, which may carry enough downbeat connotation for most tastes, can be given additional unsavoriness by truncation: pol. By prefacing liberal and conservative with ultra or arch, both labels can be saddled with suggestions of inflexible fanaticism. To speak of a pacifist or peacemaker as a peacenik is, through a single syllable, to smear someone with the suspicion that he has alien loyalties. The antifeminist who wishes for his (or her) prejudice to go piggyback...
...clinched the EIBL title. The Crimson's other weekend opponent. Army, dropped two to Dartmouth Saturday to fall to 19-19, 8-10 in theleagure. The weatherwas idyllie for all four games last weekend, which helped to boost attendance was a red hot team coming into Cambridge, having swept arch-rival Navy in a double header eight days ago. The future bodes well for Harvard pitching. Both Crimson hurlers on Friday--right Marchese and southpaw Musselman--are freshman, and together they allowed Army only two in more than 12 innings. In contrast, Cornell's pitchers Saturday--the squad's best...
Louis' Gateway Arch, the TWA terminal at Kennedy Airport and the majestic Dulles International Airport terminal. Each building was different and exciting. Each was "to explore and expand the horizons of our architecture," said Saarinen...