Word: capes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ultimately decided that Peter was "being used unfairly by his wife," and in court last week Nelson described in detail Roxanne's sexual profligacy. Nelson assisted Roxanne is running periodic bedroom seances involving a dozen or more Pulitzer friends. On the foot of the bed were a black cape and a trumpet. Roxanne explained in court that she was hoping "the dead would speak to the living through the trumpet." Said Peter of the occult sessions: "I don't believe in spirit voices. I was kicked out for falling asleep." Judge Harper reluctantly allowed the trumpet...
...idyllic Hawaiian background makes the Shields family's troubles all the more startling. Mynah birds scold in the trees; the children live in the Big House; their father is rich and respected; their mother is beautiful and indulged. Anna appears at one dance wearing a cape made from thousands of gardenias. Her children know that she is somewhat different and worship her for it: "She is not the kind who bandages cuts, Lily thought. She is not like other mothers, who make grocery lists and wear undergarments. Other mothers do not forget that you go back to school...
Campus politics usually tend to settle down a bit after the Commencement Day party tents are cleared away and the Faculty heads for Vermont or the Cape. In place of juicy student government scandal and University Hall intrigue, die-hard Harvard watchers are left with raging confrontations over summer school leg-shaving services and updates on the active campus social scene (see Campus Hijinx, below...
Campus politics usually tend to settle down a bit after the Commencement Day party tents are cleared away and the Faculty heads for Vermont or the Cape. In place of juicy student government scandal and University Hall intrigue, die-hard Harvard watchers are left with raging confrontations over summer school leg-shaving services and updates on the active campus social scene (see Campus Hijinx, below...
Fatigue is one problem all will face, but each man has his special fears. Richard Konkolski, 37, a rugged, bearded Czech, feels that the ice and fog encountered in rounding Cape Horn will be the most difficult challenge for him and his 44-ft. sloop Nike II. Britain's Richard Broadhead, at 29 the youngest contender, thinks that going over the side of his 52-ft. cutter Perseverance of Medina in the tropics would be the worst thing that could happen. "In the rough southern ocean you wouldn't last a minute," is his bleak forecast...