Word: ca
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rome for an International Monetary Fund meeting. En route, Marzi stops at a tobacco shop. "I'm a gumdrop in here to get some coins for the Trevi fountain," he says. Instead of a few coins, his change is a chocolate bonbon. "Nougat lire," the tobacconist explains. "Plus ca change, plus c'est la creme chose," observes the professor...
...prospectus, they went a step further and assured the kids that there would be no grades, and that the students would be allowed to leave the classroom at any time, without asking teacher. With these ground rules, Herndon quickly discovered that his kids would rather leave his Creative Arts (CA) class and hit the bathrooms to smoke, than play around with his contrivances. CA might have been better than "reading dull texts, answering questions on ditto sheets, Discussing, making Reports, or taking tests... But that only applied to a regular class where it was clear that...
...Brown, with its best backfield since the late '50's, was embarrassed by weak neighbor Rhode Island, 35-21--only the eighth time that has happened in 57 years. Columbia's best team since 1961 was shut out by Lafayette, 3-0. And so it went. Plus ca change, plus c'cst la meme chose...
...auction for 5% of the gross-has been packing them in ever since. The rising price scales remain unaffected by recession, famine, or even an epidemic of Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis. This year special spice was added to the proceedings by the memory of the 1969 Keeneland sale of Cañonero II, who went for the bargain price of $1,200 and won the 1971 Kentucky Derby and Preakness. "There's only one thing we're selling," says Auctioneer Ralph Retler. "We're selling dreams...
...every Man O' War or Cañonero II, there are hundreds of auctioned yearlings who race only into obscurity. Saratoga graduates-carefully selected for looks and pedigree-have compiled impressive track records. But for every Derby winner (the Saratoga sales have produced four), there are many high-priced yearlings-Bold Discovery ($200,000), Love of Learning ($225,000) -who went on to undistinguished racing careers. "We are selling athletes by the standards of a beauty contest," says John Finney. "It's roughly equivalent to a pro football team drafting 13-year-old players...