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Well, the sun didn't shine. A crisp autumn breeze didn't rustle the turning leaves. And ten thousand men of Harvard, clad in chinos and pullover sweaters, didn't cheer the Crimson on to victory. So much for atmosphere...
...Penn at least gave its supporters something to cheer about before basketball season, and its offense promises to generate electricity for the rest of the season...
When the standoff began in downtown Warsaw, anger started to surge in the crowd. Shouted one militant through a loudspeaker: "We face the threat of bloodshed on the streets." But then, as thousands of workers, housewives, students and children gathered to cheer on the demonstrators, the scene changed unpredictably and took on a carnival-like atmosphere, resembling a California "happening" of the 1960s more than a dangerous political confrontation in one of the Communist world's major capitals...
...blocks separated by about 100 ft. The men are called "scorchers," an anglicization of the Gaelic word scairt, for shout, and they fill the air with orders and questions and plain gossip. Sometimes they conduct quiz shows, asking questions about entertainment figures, geography, history. When someone wins, a cheer rises in the blackness...
...west; he got as far as Northampton, where he now operates Steve Herrell's Ice Cream. Joey Crugnale, who shyly describes his outrageously heavy and rich ice cream as "the best," keeps a player piano jingling away in the corner and sometimes has his store manager cheer up the pilgrims standing in his lines by holding trivia quizzes (sample: "Who was the only actor to win two Academy Awards in a row, and what were the movies?" Answer: Spencer Tracy for Captains Courageous [1937] and Boys Town [1938]). This is known in the restaurant trade as ambience...