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...leisure class, though with little leisure. Oarsmen row all year, on the water or on machines, and put in additional long hours running and lifting weights. "You can't have much of a social life," Biglow says. "Oarsmen are notorious for going to sleep at 10 o'clock...
...piece of bad news last week when a High Court judge overturned a government-imposed ban on unions at the government's top-secret listening post at Cheltenham. The Prime Minister ousted the unions last January, claiming that two earlier work stoppages had badly disrupted the round-the-clock monitoring of satellite, radio and other communications. Though the judge upheld the government's right to forbid unions at Cheltenham, he ruled that the Prime Minister should have first consulted labor leaders and the Cheltenham staff. The decision, which the government is appealing, fanned opposition-party charges that Thatcher...
Unlike Three O'Clock or Echo and the Bunnymen, Husker Du is not just reviving psychedelia: they are revitalizing it, which, if you think about it, is kind of ironic. In the late sixties, much of the psychedelic music of the Byrds, the Beatles and Love were created through intensive and deliberate studio work. Now, 15 years later, Husker Du is bringing back the spirit and sound of psychedelia by keeping as far away from the studio as is humanly possible...
...acceptance speech to the Democratic Convention last week. Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro (D-N.Y.) warned of "a Supreme Court that turns the clock back to the 19th century. "She was referring to an array of recent High Court decisions which have made in roads into the most basic personal freedoms protected by the Constitution Perhaps the most clear-cut example of this has been the court's assault on the so-called exclusionary rule...
...create their own curriculums, and academic difficulty varies accordingly. Required homework is taboo, but elders are often given the regular college syllabus for reading on their own. At Whittier College in California last month, Elderhostelers began their day at 8 a.m. with breakfast followed by a 9 o'clock class called American Politics on Film. A 10:30 class offered hands-on training with Apple computers. Afternoons, everyone hopped into the shallow end of the college pool for a course called Aquasize, or aquatic exercise. Dinner was at 6 p.m., followed by a 7 p.m. screening of the movie...