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Chips With Everything, by Arnold Wesker. George Orwell's image of the future was that of a boot unendingly stamping on a human face. Socialist-minded Playwright Wesker's image of the present, in Britain at least, is that of sheep endlessly being sheared and slaughtered by the Establishment without raising a baa of protest. Wesker calls his play "a kick up backside, with love" aimed at the British working class, and one of his characters scornfully berates the unimaginative, undemanding docility of that class: "You breed babies and you eat chips* with everything...
Harvard started the game in most un-hospitable fashion. Following Jerry Mechling's kick-off, Stephens and Rick Beizer slammed down Rutgers' runners for minimal gains, and when a third down pass failed, Bill Brendel kicked for the Knights. The wobbly boot was not aided by an interference penalty, and the Crimson took over on the Rutgers...
Resounding Success. Hyman Goldberg's new role as housewife's helper is no more improbable than any other milestone in his journalistic career. At 16, Goldberg was covering the police beat for three Manhattan papers and a news service to boot. He was still 16 when he lost one of his papers, the old New York Sun, for excessive drinking on the job. Goldberg blames the calamity on the more experienced police reporters working the lobster shift. When he arrived at police headquarters, they were usually imbibing the last of the night's gin and grapefruit juice...
Punts seem to bore most casual football fans. Regardless of how far the favorite eleven may boot the ball, most partisan rooters see it only as an unproductive surrender of the football. Booming opposition kicks similarly fall to arouse much distress...
Because it's there? No. Because he was there. In Africa to address a conference on wildlife preservation, Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, 43, who gets a boot out of barging around mountains (two years ago he loped up Japan's 12,388-ft. Mount Fuji), now was set on 19,317-ft. Mount Kilimanjaro. "This is not a dangerous climb, just a long, hard walk," said Stew, and up he went casually clad in climbing pants, sports shirt and sweater. That was a bit skimpy for the hidden throes of Kilimanjaro-one seasoned mountaineer in the party collapsed...