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...Bostonians may or may not be destined for Freshman Week glory aside Paper Chase, Love Story, and other on-location classics. But it is worth seeing, and Yard cognoscenti will get a knowing chuckle from seeing Johnston Gate's ever-obnoxious gingerbread guard-booth look out of place in yet another century...
Within the Yard, the Class of '84 saw a Henry Moore statue placed in front of Lamont, land a designer guardhouse by Johnston Gate. Sever Hall got a facelift, and lost the blackboard with "Do Problem 2A Only" mysteriously painted...
...uses her body with humor (sitting on the floor and wiggling backward out of a cancan skirt), sexual invitation (in the bumps and grinds of a vulgar parody of some black choreography), and grace (in the irregular, Twyla Tharpish movements created for her by Director-Choreographer Alan Johnston). She highlights the dances' meaning with a panoply of facial expressions: she may be the best mugger since Lucille Ball...
...than 8,000, it has become an obligatory stop for visiting U.S. Congressmen wanting to see how U.S. aid is being administered there. So when a delegation from the Senate Budget and Appropriations committees arrived in Honduras last Wednesday, the camp was naturally on their itinerary. Senators J. Bennett Johnston (D., La.) and Lawton Chiles (D., Fla.), seven other passengers and six crew members boarded two unarmed UH-1H helicopters at a Honduran air force base; Johnston and Chiles rode in the same vehicle. But as they approached Colomoncagua, their carefully scripted tour rapidly went awry...
Hovering 1,000 ft. in the air, the first helicopter took gunfire. "It was like gravel raining on a pan," said Johnston. The pilot tried to maneuver away from the barrage, but could not. One bullet destroyed the helicopter radio. Another tore through the floor and exited through the roof, narrowly missing Chiles and clipping one of the rotor blades. Since the gunfire made an immediate landing impossible, the pilot carefully veered the crippled helicopter back to an army base. The second helicopter had also come under fire...