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...players seem to fit the usual classifications. There's an assassin (Keith Cooper), an animal (Carey), a boot (Joe Kanecht), and a hoss (Hassan Riffat). They dress in the traditional fashion, too Bandages, crutches, stitches, broken noses and black eyes are de rigueur Florence Nightingale would feel right at home attending to the players over the post-practice...
...beginning of the season, the Redbirds weren't expected to do so well. Most experts picked them second, behind either Montreal or Philadelphia; some even pegged the Cards third. No pitching was the word, and no power to boot...
...fondle her breasts, the doctor says: "I have a perfectly ordinary female body. Shut your eyes and use it." Miles protests. He may not know who he is, but he is certainly not the kind of man who would submit to such shameless immorality, and in a hospital to boot. Naked now, the doctor and nurse intensify their ministrations. "Our sole function," explains his physician, "is to provide you with a source of erotic arousal...
...sports fan briefly described here spent a year working on his spiral pass as a result of his little caper, and you will get the boot for less-obvious academic violations as well. Harvard takes these stipulations more seriously than it does rules about party notes. Perhaps the most famous disciplining of the past 5o years involved none other than the current senior U.S. Senator from the Bay State. Young Ted Kennedy '54 (but actually '56) didn't feel up for a Spanish exam and had a buddy take it for him. Only Ted decided to spend the morning munching...
...shade of the roof, a man with an unbuttoned, flowered shirt suns his ample midriff, his eyes serenely shut. He could be an orthodontist or a hardware-store owner, but he is probably the minister of a prosperous Protestant suburban church. Chautauqua was founded by Methodists as a boot camp for Sunday-school teachers, and even today an empty bottle of sarsaparilla (alcohol is not sold on the grounds) flung into the night is likely to bean an aestivating pastor. To one side of the amphitheater is the stately United Presbyterian House, red brick with white trim...