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...points to come from behind and throw the contest into the doubles finals. Although the Crimson lost to the fifth-ranked Tigers, Seaver "kept us alive." Usher comments.... Usher also managed to keep himself alive during the tournament when he was confronted with a would-be assailant in the affluent Los Angeles suburb of Westwood one night. Approached from behind by a man who coveted the team's money in Usher's front left pocket, the tennis coach swung a quart-size bottle of V-8 juice and knocked the other man out cold. Although he field a complaint when...
Even in Poland, some Solidarity sympathizers have expressed doubts about the wisdom of the union's course. Sitting in a comfortable country house near Warsaw, a group of affluent Polish farmers last week discussed the union's fate with a mixture of pity and reproach. "We are still for Solidarity," said one man, "but unfortunately they should have had more patience." His wife agreed: "It was too much, too fast...
Large advertisers, meanwhile, began spreading their dollars around, buying space in both city and suburban papers and time on television. Instead of taking ads in all city papers, they gravitated to only one, either because it had a larger circulation or more affluent readers. Even a small disparity between papers-the Inquirer's circulation is only 27,000 higher .than the Bulletin's-could cause a stampede of advertisers...
Fritz is the child of affluent parents, the Ordinary People of Zurich. At home there are no arguments, no problems. About matters of taste, there is no dispute: his parents are always right. Questions concerning money, love, sex, religion and politics are taboo. The child is never allowed to see that the world is not perfect. Yet his life is colored by a pervasive sadness: "We did nothing and said nothing and fought for nothing and had no opinions and spent our time being amused by other people who were ridiculous enough to do, say, or think something...
Harvard, for the young student, was another in a series of social challenges. Reed's father, an affluent merchant in Portland, Oregon, desired the highest in social prestige for his children and Harvard was the logical means to that end. Earlier, however, came Morristown, a fashionable prep school in New Jersey, where Jack devoted himself to athletics, charming the local girls and leading troops in a number of surreptitious raids into the nearby town. He also wrote, contributing short stories regularly to the school's literary magazine, and editing a humor magazine he published with his father's funds. Academics...