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...festivities will begin with a punch at 6 p.m. on the steps of Cabot Hall for seniors and their dates. A roast beef buffet dinner will follow. Musical entertainment, in the form of the Dunster Dunces, will provide the suitable musical atmosphere for the collation...
...Bibi journeyed to a town near the Pakistan border to meet him. Bibi was afraid, for despite her careful Moslem upbringing, she had absorbed some Sikh prejudices. "If I go to a Moslem household," she cried, "I shall have to bear the offensive smell of tobacco and eat beef!" But Tara Singh loaded her with presents and new clothes and reminded her of her duty...
...Senate, the debate on the "tide-lands" bill droned on. (Illinois' ex-Professor Paul Douglas had a portable bookcase full of law books wheeled on to the floor to beef up his arguments.) But the show lacked suspense. Everyone knew that the Senate, no matter how long it talked, would pass a bill giving states title to the submerged lands off their coasts...
...months, meat has been getting scarcer and prices higher in the Great Republic of Beef. Last week grumbling had grown too loud to be ignored any longer. With a great show of surprised innocence, Juan Perón burst into speech. He had no idea of what was going on, said he, until his labor leaders (all handpicked) had told him. "The workers have put a knife against my belly-and they are fully justified." Who was to blame? Not Perón or the labor leaders, of course, but cattle barons and butchers...
...miles a day, pickled his face and hands in beef brine, and became a symbol of invincibility around the world. He fought from a crouch-the "Jeffries crouch"-his bullet head and meaty body low, his left outthrust, his right cocked to mete out instant doom. He beat Joe Choynski, Tom Sharkey, Gus Ruhlin, beat Fitzsimmons again, knocked out Jim Corbett twice. In 1905, at 29, he ran out of opponents and retired, wealthy and undefeated, to raise cattle and prize dogs on his ranch at Burbank, Calif, and enjoy the plaudits due a superman...