Word: arens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leaps & Loops. When it comes to the men, "those European judges aren't going to know who to look hard at," says Gary Visconti, 22, the defending champion at Philadelphia. First, Visconti himself was bumped into second place by Tim Wood, 19, a fellow Detroiter who barely made the U.S. national team last year. For this year's competition, Wood dropped out of school, spent seven hours a day practicing the compulsory "school figures" (loops, brackets, circle eights) that account for 60% of the score. So precise were his blade marks that he led the field when...
...Since mixers have been all but ruled out," Rita Fletcher, RFC president, said yesterday, "there aren't enough activities for us to meet Harvard fellows. A lot of those guys know Wellesley, but not about their own backyard...
...would be hard to put them all in jail without disturbing their parents. Besides, once out of college, where is the Left in the United States? It's hard to find; Socialist candidates are something of a joke, and many radical graduates return to the campuses because they aren't appreciated in the outside world...
...BENIGN DESPOTISM. "I have the ablest staff that ever served any President in my memory. There's not a playboy among them. They aren't sitting around drinking whisky at 11 o'clock at night. They aren't walking around with their zippers unbuttoned." -Washington, July...
...operation' could check weapons and get showers, hamburgers, real milk and listen to rock'n'roll there. Huge galvanized buckets of anonymously addressed letters in geographical arrangement stand around for anyone to go through (nobody does). The letters come from school children and little old ladies usually and aren't the type soldiers are eager for. There are stacks of old magazines, junky concession stands, and a "boutique' selling ao-dais 'for your girl back home.' Though the place was full, there was a depressing silence once the jukebox and pingpong noise was eliminated. People stared blankly, watched old football...