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Sophomore center Bob McDonald was firing slapshots at an empty net, just to see if the puck really could go in off a Crimson stick. Whap! Whap...
...Watson C 11 9 20 16 Jim Trainor D 1 11 12 16 Jon Garrity W 3 6 9 8 Gene Purdy W 5 4 9 2 Rick Benson W 6 2 8 2 Murray Dea W 4 4 8 16 Scott Powers W 3 4 7 6 Bob McDonald C 2 5 7 10 Randy Millen W 3 3 6 2 Tom Murray W 1 4 5 8 Steve Andrews C 2 3 5 2 John Dunderdale D 1 4 5 8 Jack Burke W 0 4 4 14 Graham Carter D 0 3 3 6 Mitch Olson...
...responsible-statesman tone of voice, the fund-raising, the denial of candidacy mark running for office. This year's field of contenders is even more of a National Lampoon parody than usual. Take the rerun of the '76 Republican dogfight (elephant fight?), for example, only this time Old Ronald McDonald Reagan is approaching the age of mandatory retirement for most jobs and Gerry Ford is still Gerry Ford, unfortunately more so. If that isn't a sick joke, I don't know what...
...every hundred Americans, one of every twenty American families, and one of every ten American union members is a dues-paying member of Frank Fitzsimmons' union. Teamsters are cafeteria workers at Penn State, sanitationmen in New York City,...zookeepers in San Diego,...cartoonists in Hollywood,...McDonald's hamburger-bun makers in Tennessee,...brewers in Milwaukee,...and 450,000 truckers and warehousemen around the country who drive and store everything from diapers to coffins...
Just as it has been doing each week for months, inflation last week pumped up the prices that Americans paid for their goods and services by another $3 billion or so. Billions of this, trillions of that: it is beginning to sound as if the national currency were McDonald's hamburgers. More than all the other measurements of gloom, the one statistic that people can really grasp and feel is that the U.S. enters 1979 with prices almost exactly double what they were in 1967, the date that the government uses to mark the beginning of the inflationary spiral...