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BLIND students may have to spend more time and effort to get through an equal work load, but this does not keep them from outside interests. In high school Charlie managed three sports (both Hal and Charlie are avid sports enthusiasts; Hall has been at almost every Harvard football game this year, accompanied by a transistor radio and a pretty girl). Hal played the violin in his high school orchestra, and was president of Scarsdale High's General Organization. He ran for that position partially because he faced so much opposition from the faculty and the PTA: they were afraid...
...injury problem at the moment, but should be able to field a very strong team nonetheless. Tom Veraneau, Don Cosby, and Bob Bukiet, who were expected to carry the offensive load this season, are all injured, though Crosby has seen some limited action...
...IDEALLY-CONSTRUCTED university community, there would be a place for an ideal Lampoon. There are many days when it's not so great to get out of bed and realize you're alive in Cambridge--days when the Massachusetts sky dumps its cheerless load of snow and misery onto the frozen ground, when fingers numbed by cold try to hammer out the five tutorial papers due by dawn, when the sparkly conversation of a Lesley College charmer is not quite enough to make a satisfactory night's entertainment. On those bleak days, an ideal Lampoon would appear at the corner...
...natural role of 20th century man is anxiety," as Norman Mailer's General Cummings said in The Naked and the Dead, Americans beginning the last third of the century are bearing their full load. "Uncertainty is the way it is now," says Joshua Golden, assistant professor of psychiatry at U.C.L.A. "People can be comforted if they understand that it's a normal occurrence...
...goes to work after ground crews have rolled a plane's wheels onto small, dolly-like platforms. Underneath each platform are air bearings-flat disks made of plastic-fabric materials. When air is pumped into the disks, they assume a doughnut shape, raising the platform and its heavy load from 1 to 3 in. As the bearings become inflated, air escaping through perforations in the doughnut seeps underneath it. That thin film of escaping air suspends platform and plane above the concrete surface...