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...wouldn't have known cocaine from table salt. But I was bold.) So, I fed her a few beers, and then "took her for a walk." For this girl, I decided I would climb mountains. As it was, I executed a clumsy power turn in the parking lot of Peck and Peck's, exited amidst much dust and crying of tires, bottomed the car out on a curb, and almost ripped the oil pan off my mother's Ford Torino in the process. At the time I assumed it was love...
...early 1960s. Nonetheless, the official journal Red Flag has urged every Chinese to eat one mouthful less each day. "In a country with a large population like ours," said the article, "when a person saves a mouthful of grain a day, he will save a peck in a year, and the whole nation will save up to a hundred million catties [50,000 metric tons] of grain...
...other Crimson racquetmen weren't as successful as Briggs. Playing number three, Glen Whitman went the distance only to be edged by Penn's Chris Sadowski, 3-2. Rob Sedgwick lost three close games and his match to the Quakers' number five man Tom Peck...
Harvard's Neil Vosters is heavily favored at four while Rob Sedgwick and Peter Blasier will have tough matches with undefeated Quaker's Tom Peck and Sandy Groff at five...
...films can still provide comfort for the weary and overburdened. Rip learns that the stalwarts have not toppled. Gregory Peck, Paul Newman, John Wayne, Steve McQueen are impervious to criticism; throw a rock at them and it still produces sparks. As for the theater, that too has its enduring endearing qualities. There are laments for the passing grandeur of the now tacky Broadway; butter and egg musicals, and Neil Simon comedies still pull in the theater parties. Save for the new nudity, the visitor might never have been away...