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...right two alumni (Class of 48) were reaching nirvana as the band blared into the last refrain of "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard" They fervently nodded approval and murmured emphatically "want victory today" as the band concluded. Trevor hadn't given it much thought when he agreed to go to the year's first Ivy League game at the Stadium. But he didn't expect it would be quite like this. "Where do they get these characters" he asked his roommate who was much worldher in such matters than he "Oh, they dredge them up from the alumni register...
...against Arab terrorists. But after a bloody raid inside neighboring Lebanon - in which some 200 Arabs were killed - the Israelis have been unusually restrained. The reason, according to some well-placed Israelis: two weeks ago a White House aide - in a direct call to Mrs. Meir - asked Jerusalem to refrain from disturbing the peace for the immediate future. The same message was passed to Israel's Washington embassy, which was told that Lebanon needed at least a month or so to contain the fedayeen. That could have the effect of restraining Israel until after the presidential elections...
...year with a convocation in Webster Hall, President John George Kemeny professed himself ready to "risk chaos by moving forward with new ideas." Dartmouth's most striking new idea was already a reality: the college's first 252 coeds. In their honor, Kemeny asked the students to refrain from singing the traditional Men of Dartmouth ("Men of Dartmouth,/ give a rouse, for the college on the hill..."). Instead, they sang a verse of Dartmouth Undying ("Remember/ the splendor and fullness of her days..."). But then from students in the gallery came a touch of chaos, a faint chant...
...from the Vatican's official church calendar in 1969, along with St. Christopher and some other saints whose existence was in doubt. Since then Cardinal Ursi, who is Archbishop of Naples, has been trying to down-play the celebration. Among other things, he has persuaded the congregation to refrain from roaring its approval when the liquid bubbles. But recently, a new encyclopedia labeled the San Gennaro spectacle a "residue of paganized Christianity which the church has not managed to remove from Neapolitan usage...
...worked the Republican refrain of "four more years" by listing Americans and Asians dying in Viet Nam, G.I.s hooked on heroin, hungry children at home and young mothers unable to pay their grocery bills, wiretappers, "warmongers" and purveyors of racial fears, and ended: "Can we afford four more years of that...