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...trouble with loaded words is that they tend to short-circuit thought. While they may describe something, they simultaneously try to seduce the mind into accepting a prefabricated opinion about the something described. The effect of one laden term was incidentally measured in a recent survey of public attitudes by the Federal Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. The survey found that many more Americans favor governmental help for the poor when the programs are called "aid to the needy" than when they are labeled "public welfare." And that does not mean merely that some citizens prefer H/2O to water...
...earth-bound beholder but, rather, to warm the soul of the seat-of-the-pants pilot. Put-putting along a few hundred feet up at 40 m.p.h. is not like any other kind of flying that has been available for six decades. Says Mike Circuit, 37, an ultralight instructor in Salt Lake City: "It's wind in the face, flying by the feel of it, like the old barnstorming days." Agrees fellow Utahan Ken Hurd, 42: "I've never had such excitement. In a small plane, you're enclosed. Here, you're like a bird. Everything...
...choice on the next play for Harvard's fifth and sixth runs. With one out and two men on in the top of the sixth, a Weller single and a thoroughly embarrassing three-base error by B.C's right-fielder led to a three-run inside-the-park circuit for the Crimson center fielder...
...losing one to the Middies was excusable, because (a) they are one of the circuit's finer teams and (b) Harvard only avoided an 0-4 weekend with a five-run comeback in the second game, finding a way to drop two games to Princeton requires a singular effort...
...York, and On Golden Pond is one of them. "It's a lovely heartland play," says Arthur Cantor, one of the original producers. "West of Westchester, it apparently can't miss." Despite its failure on Broadway, it has become a favorite on the regional and summer-stock circuit. The original backers' investment of $240,000 was paid off last August; an average of $25,000 in royalties still comes in to the author every month from performances all over the world; and Cantor expects at least 10,000 amateur productions before that deep pond is finally drained...