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...since 1975, but there were a count of unpleasant surprises along the (Lower picture) A roughing-the-kicker gives Penn a second chance for a game to winning field goal, and the Crimson's 21 triumph becomes a 23-21 heartbreak (Top picture) The next week, an MIT practice balloon emerges from beneath the 46-yale line in the first half of the 99th The Gar But not all of the surprises were unpleased (Upper right corner) Senior quartered DON ALLARD shows the passing form helped his team reach a record-high Harvard point total in The Game and helped...
...call this lean, gray machine a bike is a bit like calling a panther "pussy" or the Queen "Liz." It cost $700, has 15 speeds, with wires in odd places, and it floats on balloon tires that would make an ascent up Everest seem like a jaunt through Central Park. "You can go off the curb or hit a pothole, and you don't even feel it," boasts Broderick. "It's like a Cadillac. It's the most expensive thing I ever bought, and I did it on the spur of the moment. I asked Elizabeth Franz...
...Shakespeare. It is Kleist's tart little fragments that most charm a reader today. There is, for example, the Swiftian modest proposal for sending messages by artillery and cannon ball, if speed is what everybody wants. There is the marvelously straight-faced account of an ascension in the balloon of Professor J. There is the wonderful little parody of The Sorrows of Young Werther: instead of killing himself, boy gets girl and lives happily ever after, fathering 13 children. Goethe, it is sometimes said, wrote Werther in order not to become Werther. Moderns can honor him for his sanity...
...taller than the original) was hoisted a quarter-mile in the air to his old haunt atop the Empire State. Even without the menacing biplanes, Kong fared poorly, with tangled cables and tears in his heavy vinyl-coated nylon skin. But after a week of deflating mishaps, the balloon's builders, who plan to take the ape on tour this year, finally got the weather and mild winds they had prayed for. And lo, as blowers pumped air through Kong's toes, the creature filled out to his full, magnificent size, producing one of the most striking sights...
When the authors turn to comparative human rights, the Soviet balloon pops. policy in the USSR And a disproportionately large number of people attempt to leave the Soviet Union each year to live in the West How many people can you think of who have given up the United States or Western Europe to live in Moscow...