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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Many children raised in religious families learn prayers so totally by rote that sometimes, even in middle age, they find the words still crossing their minds en bloc, a memory that bypasses understanding on the way to the tongue. So it is with certain secular incantations, including the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. Some of the young are beginning to examine its wording; one phrase has troubled them. Recently, the senior class president of the Eastchester, N.Y., Senior High School, along with other students and the school's principal, organized a petition campaign to have the formula changed...
...promotion. Paramount kicked in ten more. It paid off. The scenarist scrambled 100,000 miles across country. Selling, pushing. Merchandising. He appeared on Cavett, Carson. "I'm kind of a folk hero at Yale," he liked to say. "The closest thing to a Beatle." Fraternities called him up en masse; Middle America wrote in; most important, publishing houses and film companies used Love Story as a new shibboleth. The escape hatch had been opened. Erich...
Well-stocked with Canadians and led by All-American goalie Bruce Bullock. Clarkson is clearly the Crimson's toughest competition, The Golden Knights have beaten U.N.H. 3-2 and St. Lawrence twice en route to an 8-0-1 record thus far this season Their one tie came with Cornell's conqueror, R.P.I., 3-3 in overtime...
Harvard met the Chiefs' challenge every time, but didn't play the consistent basketball necessary to run up a convincing lead. En route to its third win against one loss, the Crimson turned the ball over 35 times and committed 26 personal fouls...
...long, it is because the authors are bent on enabling a twelve-year-old to turn out a fine puff paste on first try. Still, Julia observes, "you must be interested in good food and good meals and you must have some devil-may-care spirit-je m'en foutisme. There is too much fear of failure in this culture...