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Harvard will also continue with its recent policy of mini-campaigns, small fund drives for specific projects...
Colt said the tight economy has forced the Development Office to operate on a "mini-campaign basis" to attract donors to specific programs...
Strollers wandered into a Fairchild Industries mini-theater to see an eight-minute movie The Hammer, which showed the firm's weapons-laden A-10 tactical-support aircraft in action. Usherettes passed out buttons proclaiming A-10 PILOTS DO IT BETTER WITH A BIGGER GUN. At the Pratt & Whitney booth, S.R.O. crowds gathered to watch Magician Dick Ryan perform feats of prestidigitation while standing next to an F-100 engine built for the Air Force's hot new F-15 fighter. Up popped three red balls in Ryan's hand to symbolize the company's "quality...
...lets McPhee write in an unusually personal way. He begins an article about Loch Ness, home of the monster, by telling his readers that he and his wife and four daughters were sitting next to the Loch picnicking on "milk, potato sticks, lambs' tongues, shortbread, white chocolate, Mini-Dunlop cheese." Another article is about a basketball game McPhee played in some time ago. Another, about a white-water canoeing championship, spends much of its time talking about the kinds of canoes McPhee paddled in as a child and how he went about entering the races himself. Usually this kind...
...there no hope? Having taken the reader from the cradle, Donleavy looks forward in a mini-essay on "Dying" to what comes after the grave. Alas, more of the same. As he imagines a rude, rude walk through "about twenty millenniums," Donleavy suggests: "This could be, for those of you who were expecting an afterlife of courtesy, equality and contentment, a good time to break down and cry." Or bare your teeth, throw back your head and laugh like the old Ginger Man. Melvin Maddocks