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...been very difficult to concentrate on this game because most teams have finished their seasons and the majority of the talk is about playing Penn State in the Fiesta Bowl," Johnson said...
Miami, 10-0, and hoping for a victory that would put it in the Fiesta Bowl on Jan. 2 for a national championship showdown with Penn State, got all but four first-place votes yesterday in The Associated Press poll...
Saturday's Harvard-Princeton football contest was a regular fumble fiesta. The Crimson were the chumps of the 14-3 game, but managed to come out on top in this fourth-quarter encounter. Harvard's ED BOYLE (94) is brought down after a reception from quarterback Dave Landau. He fumbles (above, left)...and split end MIKE MADDEN (22) dives after the ball, apparently a step behind the Princeton defender (center)....But the ball pops loose, and Madden pulls...
Still, a long mythic fiesta between two explosions may not be a bad way to have a life. The first explosion came in Fossalta di Piave in northeastern Italy at midnight on July 8, 1918. A shell from an Austrian trench mortar punctured Hemingway with 200-odd pieces of shrapnel. The wounds validated his manhood, which they had very nearly destroyed. The second explosion came 25 years ago this summer. Early one morning in Ketchum, Idaho, Hemingway (suffering from diabetes, nephritis, alcoholism, severe depression, & hepatitis, hypertension, impotence and paranoid delusions, his memory all but ruined by electroshock treatments) slid...
Every year the people of Vitoria, a Basque community in northern Spain, celebrate the fiestas of the Virgen Blanca, the city's patron saint. Last week the annual merrymaking was disrupted when about 1,000 youths who had been drinking at fiesta street bars began chanting slogans in support of the Basque terrorist organization ETA. The demonstration soon developed into a riot in which 48 people, including ten police, were injured and tens of thousands of dollars in damage was done to public buildings...