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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN'S number one song "Born in the USA" was widely misinterpreted by people who never listened past the chorus. They mistakenly believed that it was a blindly patriotic anthem, the Star Spangled Banner of rock...
Several small planes circled above The Stadium during The Game Saturday afternoon carrying banners advertising everything from Chinese food in Newton to birthday wishes for loved ones. But only one banner, paid for by the Harvard University Police Association (HUPA), advocated a political message...
...With a banner reading "Harvard Police--350 Days--No Contract," the policemen's union took advantage of Saturday's Harvard-Yale game crowd to publicize its year-long campaign to renew its contract with the University. The aerial maneuver cost the HUPA an estimated $250, said Vice President of HUPA Jack Parenteau...
...resulting story appeared in London's Sunday Times under the banner headline REVEALED: THE SECRETS OF ISRAEL'S NUCLEAR ARSENAL. The account told how an Israeli research team, starting in 1964 with a 26-megawatt nuclear reactor supplied by France, secretly upgraded it to 150 megawatts, large enough to produce plutonium for ten nuclear bombs a year. In the process, said the article, they turned Israel into the world's sixth largest nuclear power, after the U.S., the Soviet Union, Britain, France and China...
...unusual humor in defeat. A courageous child "soloist" in a pinafore came out on the infield and sang the national anthem before the last game, and the morning after the Chronicle reported, "Around 2 p.m., little Amber Pennington, seven years old, fought her way through The Star-Spangled Banner before the start of the sixth game of the National League Championship Series. Before the game was over, Amber joined the Brownies, the Girl Scouts and went to her senior prom. She was married, had two children and took up aerobics...