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...Barbados the next day, another airport welcome took a comic-opera turn. Reagan stepped off Air Force One, listened to a band attired in starched white tunics, navy blue trousers and pith helmets play a quite creditable version of The Star-Spangled Banner, and mounted a small platform to receive a military salute. Suddenly a loud bang, followed by several more, made his security men jump. Smoke drifted over a friendly crowd of thousands, many shielding themselves from the sun under brightly colored umbrellas. It turned out that the Barbadian army had wanted to give the visiting head of state...
...Lampy Out Today" banner continued to fly above the portals of the Harvard Lampoon late this week, but nine undisturbed. A 4 a.m. foray by nine unidentified Crimson editors fell narrowly short of removing the offensive banner Friday morning, stopped only by the chance arrival of the Harvard police. But the Crimeds pledged to continue with unflagging effort, promising to be better prepared for their next assault Stay tuned...
...situation has been trying for Marcum and his few reporters. Countian reporters have been stonewalled and physically attacked by county officials, and once, when word got out that the next issue would captain names of all voters who had entered the voting booth in pairs, the Times ran a banner headline proclaiming "Homer Marcum Buys 16 Votes at Pigeon Roost...
...warmups and mortarboards, but the coach does not think so. He keeps a deflated basketball on his desk back at school, symbolizing that the air can be let out of a basketball career any time. When the players arrived home, a message was waiting for Brown on a banner draped on a campus building...
...OBJECTS will deteriorate, the characters will fade from memory, and what will remain, is meaning. "Crime Does Not Pay," the banner on Boston's second largest daily the day Locke went to jail, is the first and simplest that comes to mind. But it does not ring true. If anything, Locke's case should call attention to a disease currently pervading the current administration. Recurrent charges against aides to Gov. Edward J. King, and King's continued insistence on ignoring a major corruption report, suggest that Bery Locke was just an unlucky scapegoat. And von Bulow's trial was sensational...