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...store, past the mendicant * saxophone player on the corner. Decked out, some in black leather jackets, others in pink high-tops and bobby-sox, a jaunty tweed cap here, a brightly colored scarf there, they jaywalk across 48th Street in twos and threes, dodging yellow taxis. Quick! Into an alley, up a metal staircase and through an entrance marked STAGE DOOR...
Perhaps the American space program, currently languishing under a scarcity of both public money and goodwill, is a victim of a President who believes more can be learned about the heavens from a back alley palm reader than from an orbiting telescope. Perhaps Reagan believes that exploring the stars will upset the delicate balance of planetary influence. It seems that as belief in astrology rises, belief in astronomy is sure to fall. That is the kind of harm Reagan's connection with pseudoscience can inflict on this nation...
...whipped out a gun, led me into an alley, and watched me search frantically through my wallet. I knew I had less than $10, and I knew that muggers have a tendency to get angry when their victims have little to offer them. I was so nervous that I dropped my I.D. card and some pieces of scrap paper; he politely bent down and picked them up for me. But despite my mugger's charm and chivalry--it was the first time I was ever addressed as "ma'am"--I could not help fearing the worst: assault, rape, death...
Students accustomed to using the small alley between Kirkland and Eliot Houses as a shortcut to John F. Kennedy Street are going to be getting some unwanted exercize starting this week...
...incident soon followed. On Saturday, during the funeral procession for one of the Milltown cemetery victims, an angry crowd of mourners spotted two British undercover agents desperately trying to maneuver their car out of trouble. They were pulled from their vehicle, disarmed, stripped, beaten savagely, dragged into a nearby alley and killed, apparently with their own weapons...