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...lunch in a remote village, a man named Ralph comes over to chide Fair. Ralph is a heavy contributor to the loon committee. "We had a loon around the dock yesterday," Ralph says. "I tried to hit it with a canoe paddle, but it got away...
...while 200 colleges are represented in the incoming class, 65 of the first year students hail from Harvard, making the College the largest sing contributor to the student body. Yale runs a distant second with slightly less than half that number enrolled...
...Sept. 1 Ferraro duly reported these loans to the Federal Election Commission. She was quickly told by the FEC that using a family loan for her campaign was illegal. Like any prospective contributor, each member of her family could give only $1,000. Ferraro was advised that she would face hefty fines if the violation continued, so she scrambled to repay the loans...
...Contributor John Skow, who had covered the tragic 1972 Olympics in Munich, comparisons were inescapable: "Before the massacre of the Israeli athletes, journalists freely roamed the athletes' quarters. No such freedom prevailed in Los Angeles. But despite the restrictions, security officials were unfailingly courteous...
...Contributor John Skow, who wrote the coyer story, verified McWhirter's observations during his own visit to Bombeck's household. He was amazed, and appalled, by Bombeck's well-hidden efficiency: "She gets up in the morning, goes into her office and functions till 5," he notes. "She works on her column or her play, and they get done when she says they'll be done. That is terribly depressing to someone else trying to write." However, the two of them, each the parent of three children, did achieve instant rapport on the awfulness of adolescence...