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...faculty member at each table, were expected to eat everything on their plates, it was difficult to avoid. One boy, more imaginative and more opposed to pechay than most, went to unusual lengths. Learning that pechay was on the night's menu, he took a hair from the longest-haired girl in school, worked it into his plate while the teacher was not looking and then pretended to discover it. "Look at this, sir!" he announced, grasping the end of the hair and then slowly and endlessly drawing it out of the hated vegetable. That night his entire table...
Ryan, last week, was among those who won, or at least reached a negotiated settlement of, their longest battle of the Viet Nam War. His family and four others acted as plaintiffs representing thousands of Viet Nam veterans and their families in a massive class action against manufacturers of the herbicide. They charged that Agent Orange caused, among other things, cancer and liver damage in many of the soldiers, miscarriages in some of their wives and birth defects in some of their children. The five-year legal struggle, which came to symbolize the bitter suffering and frustration of the veterans...
...seemed a splendid idea. To the glory that was Greece, the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee (L.A.O.O.C.) wanted to bring a touch of American grandeur. The Olympic flame was to be relayed from east to west in a scenic 19,000-kilometer zigzag across all 50 states, the longest torch run in modern Olympic history. Sections of the route would be "sold" at $3,000 a kilometer to sponsors who contribute to charity. Doing it the American way, the Olympic flame would arrive from Greece electronically. AT&T, which is sponsoring the Olympic relay, set up a system...
Hugh Calkins '45, the longest-serving member of the Corporation, said this week that the Corporation will be spending a good deal of time assembling a response to the latest report from the Advisory Committee on Share holder Responsibility. Although neither Calkins--nor anyone else--has confirmed it, it is widely known that the ACSR voted by a slim margin for divestiture, for the first time ever...
Like most who love performing Sabath has toyed with the idea of becoming a professional actor. "But doing a show over and over again--it gets numbing. My longest run was eight shows. After 400 it becomes a job. After graduating Sabath plans to live in Manhattan and work at a computer firm. He doesn't foresee, however, totally giving up performing. Sabath plans to form an a capella quartet with some fellow graduates, the new group will reintroduce New York to the tunes of the forties...