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...mobile home, donated by Love Homes, a Pennsylvania firm, MacKay and two other men have been camping for the past 18 weeks on a 6-ft. by 48-ft. platform at the base of a billboard nearly overhanging the interstate cloverleaf in Allentown, Pa. Whoever stays longest wins. WSAN, a local AM radio station that advertises on the billboard, sought to promote its switch from country and western to nostalgia music last fall by launching the giveaway contest. To qualify, listeners had only to send in 25-words-or-less statements about why they wanted to compete. To the astonishment...
...scheduling of two dual meets with teams outside the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League (EISL). The net result of the additions may be some truly challenging competition for the aquamen after two consecutive undefeated seasons in the EISL and two possible threats to their 26-meet winning streak--currency the longest in Division I swimming For the first meet, the Crimson travels to Penn State for a January 30 match-up with the Nittany Lions...
...padlocked steel mills of what has come to be known grimly as the American Rust Bowl, and from the rail sidings of East Chicago to the icy waterways of western New York State, they offer mute testimony to the industrial damage that has been done by the longest economic decline in half a century...
...order is the longest-running and probably the best-loved political issue in U.S. history. Yet it is painfully apparent that millions of Americans who would never think of themselves as lawbreakers, let alone criminals, are taking increasing liberties with the legal codes that are designed to protect and nourish their society. Indeed, there are moments today-amid outlaw litter, tax cheating, illicit noise and motorized anarchy-when it seems as though the scofflaw represents the wave of the future. Harvard Sociologist David Riesman suspects that a majority of Americans have blithely taken to committing supposedly minor derelictions...
...NOTEBOOK: Harvard's present four game will streak is its longest since the 1980-81 season when the cagers strung together eight victories...