Word: beers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...principal moral objection to the numbers game today is that it is, in effect, a regressive form of taxation that is borne far more heavily by the poor than the well-to-do. On the other hand, scoffs a New York hunch player, "TV is regressive. So are beer, taxes and mass transit fares...
Last year's residents of Pennypacker Hall still talk about the last party they threw in what was then the all-male Union Dorm. It was one of their patented beer blasts, with all the usual ingredients--a couple of kegs, a T.V. set in the hallway, and 80 or so half-drunken freshmen blearily watching "Brian's Song." The only women who dared disturb the stately, all-male silence quickly left after an irate hockey player indignantly commanded them to "Shut the hell up, can't you see we're trying to listen?" The party's high point came...
...passed a hat, and staged the first of a long string of parties that have enticed students from the Yard to make the great trek across Prescott Street. "Brian's Song" is no longer the main attraction, and there has even been a move by screwdriver-lovers to supplant beer as the official beverage. The scheme seems to have worked. Pennypacker is now such a popular place that it has adopted students from other freshman dorms who prefer to spend most of their time there--most notably the four or five from Wigglesworth whom the natives have dubbed "Wigglepackers...
...committees for or against referenda questions, the champion spender was the Committee to Protect Jobs and the Use of Convenience Containers, which opposed the bill to ban nonreturnable soft drink and beer containers. In campaigning against the bill, which would have mandated a deposit of at least 5 cents on each bottle or can sold in the state, the Committee to Protect Jobs spent a total of $1.21 million. Of that amount, only 23 per cent, or about $283,000, came from Massachusetts residents or locally based corporations. Seventy-seven per cent of the money pumped into the anti-bottle...
...students who wrote their theses under Wright's guidance later became full professors in the government department. "That's testimony to his excellent teaching abilities," Beer said...