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...Boot Camp for the Brain...
...Paper Chase is a lie," says second-year student William B. Lindsey. "It depicts this place as an intellectually stimulating marine boot camp for the brain...
...contribution of $7 million, Levi Strauss gets to create the official outfit of the class of '86. Gone are black gowns and mortarboards. In their place: for the guys, boot-cut denims, snap-button Western shirts with solid-color yokes and Stetson hats; for the gals, knee-length gingham skirts, Lady Fryes and matching blouses and bandannas. Members of the Harvard Corporation and other honored guests on the dais wear full-length cowhide chaps...
...many cities last week, motorists must have felt as if they were on a nostalgia trip. At Alert service stations in the South, dealers were selling unleaded gas for as little as 87.9 cents per gal. and throwing in a car wash to boot. Downtown Standard Service in Denver offered unleaded for 85.9 cents per gal., down from $1.19 in mid-February. Some Houston dealers chopped the price of regular, which was as high as $1.24 last month, down to 69.9 cents...
...live a year or so longer than their sedentary counterparts," says the report's principal author, Dr. Ralph Paffenbarger Jr. of the Stanford University School of Medicine. "For each hour of physical activity, you can expect to live that hour over -- and live one or two more hours to boot...