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...most Seussian SNAFU of all is "Rumors" (Freleng, December 43), which begins with Geisel doggerel: "Twas a bright sunny day / With the air fresh and clean. / Not a rumor was stirring / Except in the latrine." There, SNAFU misinterprets another soldier's joke about a bombing as a warning that the base is under attack. To a third GI he whispers, "I think we're in for a bombing," and a sign sprouts: HOT AIR. "The hot air is blowing, a rumor is growing," the narrator warns. "Balloon juice is phony, but it makes good baloney." A soldier with a mouth...
Johnson’s second goal, which gave Harvard a 3-0 lead midway through the second, came on a rebound of Tom Walsh’s point shot after a clean faceoff win by Pettit. The line finished the night at plus-6—not bad for three players who had never skated together before the weekend...
...uncooked. Still, restaurateurs insist that the customer knows best. "Who knows what to them is rare?" says Mikulic, owner of Vinoklet. "This way, if they screw it up, I get no complaints." Back at Chung Kiwha in Florence, patron Puckett sees it this way: "We don't have to clean...
Colorado has not made clear what it will do to clean up the mess. The NCAA is doing what organizations do in such situations--appointing a task force to look into recruiting rules. It's barely a start in fixing a culture that has made an institution out of unsportsmanlike conduct. --Reported by Rita Healy/Denver
...security consists of a few hundred guerrillas-along with a few thousand cops who belong to one of the Caribbean?s most threadbare police forces. ?This is not the way things were supposed to be once we were rid of Aristide,? said businessman Jean Robert, 57, as he helped clean up the police station looted by mobs in the capital?s Petion Ville district. ?I could go back and live in the U.S., but I?m staying, because we?ve got to change the way things are done here...