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Bouncing Quarter. In part, the military schools are victims of a bum rap; they have never been major training centers for the armed forces-though the Defense Department dutifully provides support for their military programs. Instead, their self-declared aim was to produce gentlemen. "We have always maintained that the military discipline provided the finest possible supplement to one's preparation for college and the challenges of life," the Kentucky Military Institute wrote its alumni before it became secularized as the Kentucky Academy. "Unfortunately, each year fewer people seem to accept this premise." Frank Miller, an official with...
...thick British accents: "Now, ladies and gentlemen, we're way too low on this filly. She's out of a stakes-winning mare by a half brother to the winner of the St. Leger." Then the auctioneer would continue, building purposefully to that inevitable climactic gavel rap: "Are you all through? At fifty-five hundred and . . . six, you want him? Fifty-five hundred and . . ." BAM, the gavel would come down, and the gentleman in the fifth row who had firmly decided he could spend no more than $3,500 for the filly would suddenly find himself signing...
...What the Rap Might Be The threat has been mentioned all along, but last week Government attorneys began the first broad investigation into what criminal charges may result from the publication of the Pentagon papers. A federal grand jury in Boston started hearing evidence on how the documents had been reproduced and distributed, giving specific attention to the roles of the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Boston Globe. Timesman Neil Sheehan, who first obtained the papers, and his wife, were also mentioned. But neither they nor any other newspaper employees had been subpoenaed by week...
...acknowledges that it will be a struggle, but has a rosy vision of the ease with which all will be accomplished. While on one side she can describe the unhappy realities of the individual woman, when Greer looks at them in large numbers she launches into a Consciousness Three rap. "All literature, however vituperative, is an act of love, and all forms of electronic communication attest to the possibility of understanding," she sighs. Her call to revolution at the end of the book ranges from housewives leaving their husbands and children to "(using) even cooking, clothes, cosmetics and housekeeping...
According to Moscow, the defendant would be in "far, far 'better shape," before the CRR. "In the Cambridge courts, she'll have the alternative of taking the rap or finking on her friends...