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Clemson, whose football team finished atop the wire polls last season, got a letter from the NCAA on March 29 stating that a number of allegations of rule violations had been substantiated. Why, then, hasn't Clemson been sentenced yet? According to one Atlantic Coast Conference official the delay is probably the result of a big television deal that the NCAA has negotiated for the Clemson-Georgia game slated to open next fall's football season...
...veranda were converted into operating theaters; a dance hall was turned into a 100-bed ward. Within a week, the Uganda was on its way to the South Atlantic, the strains of Rule Britannia blaring from its loudspeaker system. Similarly, the Canberra was outfitted with a helicopter deck atop its swimming pool. Marine commandos were instructed to take off their boots in the public rooms until the carpeting had been covered with plywood. Within three days the Canberra was headed toward the war zone with 2,000 troops aboard...
Once again Leonid Brezhnev confounded the doomsayers who had placed him at death's door since he reportedly suffered a stroke five weeks ago. Making his second public appearance in nine days, the Soviet President stood for 1 ½ hours on the reviewing stand atop the Lenin mausoleum on Red Square to watch the annual May Day parade. Wearing a gray overcoat and fedora as protection against a drizzling rain, the 75-year-old leader looked wan and weary as he waved weakly at the tens of thousands of Soviet citizens who marched by carrying banners, artificial flowers...
...build it. After the U.S. entered the war, Oppie was assigned the chief responsibility of figuring that out. At the secret Los Alamos laboratory, he led-and occasionally pushed and shoved-an extraordinary gathering of the country's top minds in constructing the instrument that exploded atop a tower in the desert. When the test bomb detonated, he silently repeated to himself a line from the Bhagavad-Gita Hindu devotional poem: "I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds...
Last year a giant downtown Schlitz sign was replaced by one bearing the Budweiser label of St. Louis' Anheuser-Busch. That is a little like erecting a flashy Toyota sign atop the Fisher Building in Detroit. After all, Schlitz was "the beer that made Milwaukee famous...