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Representatives of Federal Express made important appearances in Cambridge and Philadelphia yesterday, delivering parcels to Harvard football coach Joe Restic and Penn head coach Harry Gamble. It was the vital weekly ritual known as Exchange of Game Films, and both coaching staffs--fresh from exploring films of their own squad's last contest--sat down to pore over the footage of their adversary for this weekend's matchup at Franklin Field...
...accident occurred during the Rutgers-Williams and Mary football game, after 25 Chi Psi members drank a grain alcohol mix and cavorted through the stands during the homecoming game. They were participating in a ten-year-old homecoming ritual that includes drinking and dressing up in costumes...
...interim, the Governor upstaged the President when they both appeared at a dinner honoring Al Smith, the former Democratic Governor of New York, that is an annual political ritual sponsored by the Catholic Archdiocese of New York. Reagan was relaxed, poking light-hearted fun at himself and wisely refraining from any cracks with a partisan bite, as required by the ground rules of the dinner. Quipped the Governor during an eight-minute speech: "There is no foundation to the rumor that I am the only one here who was at the original Al Smith dinner." (This year...
...effective than rage. Reagan's substitute for strong emotion seems to be humor, both memorized and spontaneous. He is a walking repertory theater of show-biz anecdotes, one-liners, elaborate routines (interestingly, he almost never tells a political anecdote). On the campaign plane, Nancy Reagan has made a ritual of rising a few moments after takeoff to roll an orange toward the emergency exit at the rear, which she usually manages to hit. When she is not along, Reagan takes over the routine and converts it into an act. Sometimes he is a bowler, sometimes a football player, frequently...
...though I was wearing a bathing suit," he said afterward. He was, in fact, clad in wool underwear, a frogman's suit, a ski suit, a leather suit, several wool sweaters and a motorcycle helmet. The frigid feat ended in a small New Jersey airfield, after a ritual circling of the Statue of Liberty and a near collision with the Goodyear blimp...