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...Crimson's Murderers' Row of Milt Yasunaga at 126 pounds followed by Bill Mulvihill, George Baker, Tom Bixby, Jim Corcoran, Jon Franklin and Captain Jim Strathmeyer piled up a 33-0 margin against hapless Georgia Tech. Corcoran pretzled his man with a cradle to score a second round pin. The Crimson ended up swamping the Yellowjackets 39-3 after heavyweight Kip Smith flattened...
...President Hafez Assad. Prager also talked to two of Assad's closest advisers: Major General Naji Jamil, head of the Syrian air force, and Major General Mustapha Tlas, the Defense Minister. Following an old Syrian gift-giving custom, Jamil presented Prager with a small air-force pin, smilingly suggesting that it might make it easier for Prager to be a military correspondent in Syria in the unhappy event of more fighting in the area. Was there a more ominous symbolism in the Defense Minister's gift, a chrome-plated presentation pistol? Not at all, Tlas explained. He told...
...pin-striped gentleman rose to his feet. "Sir!" he intoned. "Would you say that the new American institutions that you have so carefully described took the place of the established church which you Americans chose to eliminate--so that your Supreme Court became a kind of papacy...
Little Bayonets. The book was also a painful blow to Aurelia Plath. Like all the other characters in The Bell Jar, the narrow-minded, hard-working mother is ferociously cartooned. Shortly before trying to kill herself, the heroine watches her sleeping, "the pin curls on her head glittering like a row of little bayonets...
...ENEMY. Never mind all those smooth-talking partisans of "men's liberation" joyously chanting "Oppressors, arise and recognize your own oppression!," fresh from their discovery that men as well as women suffer from rigid sexual stereotyping. No use trying to pin the blame on some anonymous entity called "the system" which makes both sexes squirm unhappily--not even if the system turns to be none other than that ogre capitalism. After all, Marxist theory may say one thing, but in practice socialist countries still uphold the nuclear family and discriminate against women. Every man--socialist or capitalist--is a sexist...