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...season ended with the notorious "O" club initiation, a ritual for all first-year varsity lettermen. The initiates were ordered to crawl backward for fifty yards with "grapes up our asses," forced to drink menstrual fluid, and constantly shocked with battery-powered cattle prods. Coaches observed these activities to ensure that the proceedings "didn't get too sadistic...
...first round the challenger looked and acted like a playground bully, fending off the champion's dipping, weaving attack by simply shoving him backward with the heels of his gloves. Frazier got off a few of his highly touted left hooks, but Foreman either blocked them or moved inside with jolting uppercuts. Then, in one such exchange, the challenger caught the champion with a crunching right and sent him sprawling to the canvas. Up at the count of two, a dazed Frazier gallantly tried to press an attack; Foreman dropped him again and then again with a flurry...
...have a beating heart and a functioning brain and be biologically human, the black man was not a legal person." More mildly, Bishop William Cannon of the United Methodist Church warned: "If this leads to promiscuity and to taking the creation of life lightly, then it is a step backward...
...every class there are 20 men at least well qualified and willing to conduct a paper, nor are the rest at all backward with either their money or their good wishes. There is no disparagement in saying that the Advocate does not cover the whole ground; indeed, it does not pretend to. The perception of these facts has induced the Editors of the Magenta to offer a new paper to their fellow-students. Its general plan is as follows...
...Titan is a kind of time machine," says Sagan, "enabling us to look backward to the time of the early earth. I don't think life there is out of the question...