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...March 3, in Science Center C, where I had been asked to speak to Harvard-Radcliffe Parents of the Class of '85, someone distributed before the lecture a flyer that bore a note at the end--"App'd Harvard Republican Club." The author or authors of the flyer expressed opposition to a "virtual monopoly of political thought and discussion...achieved by the left wing of the students and faculty" at Harvard. There is no point in my taking the time or your space to consider this fantasy in all its aspects. But I do want to correct in public...
Thomas Alva Edison, possessor of 1,093 patents, advertised with as much genius as he invented. The flyer for the early phonograph had a likeness of Uncle Sam, and the copy said, "Uncle Sam takes off his hat." Edison called the phonograph the Triumph. He made a million. -By Gregory Jaynes
...bottom without mortal injury was eligible to enter pre-Olympic competition; there are ten places on the Olympic team (seven men and three women, no doubles competition among women). Finishing twelfth in the Olympics still qualifies as a triumph for an American sliding downhill feet first on a Flexible Flyer...
...looked so horribly vulnerable in that first photograph, a stark, grainy shot of a dazed U.S. soldier, eyes rolled back, mouth agape, body slumped insensibly on the shoulder of his impassive Syrian captor. For a month, that disturbing image came to mind whenever ; Americans thought about the young Navy flyer who had been shot down during a bombing run over Lebanon, the first U.S. serviceman taken prisoner in combat since Viet Nam. Lieut. Robert O. Goodman Jr., 27, did not see the picture until last week, when he was flying back home aboard a military plane. He stared at himself...
...publicity, conceded Sergio Bendixen, Alan Cranston's campaign manager. Maxine Isaacs, Mondale's press secretary, said of the former Vice President's staff, "If we were younger and less experienced, we'd be depressed." With one stroke, Jackson, by successfully gaining the release of Navy Flyer Robert Goodman, gave his campaign a credibility that it had sorely lacked. Said Andrew Young, Atlanta's black mayor: "When Jesse says something visionary now, people won't take it as ridiculous...