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...hell with Yale" to the tune of O Tannenbaum, but that was all. The Yale band also did not sink to the occasion. Had marauders from M.I.T. prepared an appropriate prank-last year they spent three weeks engineering the implantation under the midfield turf of a 4-ft. balloon, which they inflated and exploded by remote control in The Game's second quarter-the occasion might have been lightened, but this year they, too, failed to find inspiration...
...also attacked the opponents of the South Africa government by claiming that "some members of the panel have been trapped in a balloon since the 1960s. People are unaware that changes have been taking place...
Often it was impossible to hear the Secretary speak over the shouting to roughly a third of the audience. Even before he rose to speak, the Law School professor who introduced him was at times drowned out. A balloon full of red liquid was thrown at Weinberger, who fortunately was not struck. Shouts of "murderer" and other insults were hurled at him throughout the hour and a quarter he was on stage. Through it all the Secretary attempted to give a standard speech on the Reagan Administration's approach to nuclear defense: simultaneous negotiations for arms reductions and modernization...
...huge black weather balloon marked "MIT" blossomed on the 45-yard line mid-way through the second quarter, and Techies disguised as Yale band members flung themselves onto the field during halftime and spelled out their school's name...
...implicated MIT fraternity did not come forward and take blame or credit for the balloon until later in the week. Although the responsibility was originally secret, says frat Vice President Victor J. Cook III. "They felt good about it and wanted to tell people, so they...