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...Adams House serves a fine scotch broth, and a passable clam chowder. It was over a bowl of the latter that the young Radcliffe woman, fresh off the boat from the 'Cliffe (a small girls' college in Cambridge) met the young Harvard man, up for a day from the Yard (an esoteric prison camp, not to be confused with the expression "thirty feet long and a Yard wide," in which yard refers to a small green mammal). "Hello," he said, "do you live here...
...students, Keith Raffel '71 and Robert Coyne '73, journeyed to Washington as part of a delegation of representatives from 12 colleges which is meeting with high government officials. They are attempting to reverse what they termed the "delusion" in Washington that the nation's campuses are clam despite the Allied intervention in Laos...
...after the quake, Angelenos still trembled. Aftershocks continued to roll through the metropolitan area, each stirring concern that another major upheaval might be imminent. At least 60,000 valley residents whose homes lie below Van Norman Reservoir were ordered to stay away from their neighborhoods. Much of the restraining clam's concrete facing had slipped beneath the water, and its earthen backing had developed fissures. With each new shock-one reached a magnitude of 5.7-residents feared that 6 billion gallons of water might burst into the valley. The slow task of emptying the 100-ft.-deep reservoir into...
Count on the sizzling charburgers to be a well-grilled and just barely pink quarter-pound of ground beef. You can find a better hamburger in the Square, but only if you don't think Bartley's Burget Cottage is a greasy spoon. The clam dinner at $1.75 is the best bet of the fish entrees...
...circle, stopping in front of each of us and making a hostile remark. Sylvia had to drag his first statement from him. But his anger quickly accelerated as he made his rounds. "Why in the hell do you wear those stupid religious earrings?" he asked Barbara. "Stop being a clam," he yelled at Bob, "you're letting the rest of us down." When it was over, Carl could not deny that he at last recognized his hostility...