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Lampoon "Humor" Department: The not-so-funny phools down the road from 14 Plympton St. have never been too fond of the city-planted tree in front of their castle-like abode. In fact, Harvard lore has it that the poonsters have been trying to kill off the hapless arbor for many a year. But former Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, never one to be bested by third-rate humorists, has turned the tables yet again by designating the structure which once housed Elmer W. Green as "Freedom Square." The freedom-loving capitalist Malcolm Forbes would be proud. Members...
...scene is the Sierra Club International Assembly in Ann Arbor, Mich., and the players are Bill Oliver and Glen Waldeck, the poets of preservation and the unofficial troubadours of the U.S. environment movement. All across the country, at conferences and campfires and on campuses, the two minstrels denounce development and pollution and plead for the rescue of endangered animals. Their music never hits the Top 40, but many a member of the Sierra Club or the National Audubon Society can hum their tunes and recite their lyrics by heart. To thousands of nature lovers, Oliver and Waldeck are to environmentalism...
...resolved to boycott Domino's Pizza in January, after owner Tom Monaghan allowed the company's facilities in Ann Arbor, Michigan to be used by anti-abortion fundraisers but denied use to prochoice advocates, Ireland said...
...newcomer of the year thus far is John Collee, a British physician and writer of TV medical scripts. In A Paper Mask (Arbor House; 232 pages; $16.95), his second book, the premise is that most emergency-room orderlies fancy themselves able, by practical experience, to diagnose and treat patients, and that one of them decides to give it a try. This antihero, who assumes the name and hospital residency of an acquaintance who is killed in an accident before he can report for duty, makes some disastrous mistakes -- but such is the imposing aura of his purported professional credentials that...
...weeks ago, 200 students and faculty members from the school's Ann Arbor campus held a 45-minute rally in front of the building that houses the Daily...