Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...making characteristic low rumbling noise, cruising effortlessly at 20 mph. (I found, much to my annoyance, that the speed limit was 25!) Then I passed an orange Vette, a bright yellow Vette, another and another. I thought something was dangerously amiss, but I soon discovered that there were 160 (count'em) Corvettes on campus, more than you or I have probably seen in an entire lifetime of playing the old car identification game which, in my case, drove both my parents absolutely crazy...
Other such dramas have occurred recently, including the 1970 murder of the West German ambassador, Count Karl von Spreti, by Guatemalan guerrillas. Over the past five years, eight U.S. diplomats and embassy officials have been involved in kidnaping incidents. In January, Ambassador to Haiti Clinton Knox and Consul Ward Christensen were seized at gunpoint and released only after the Haitian government paid a ransom of $70,000 and freed twelve political prisoners...
This weekend, the smart money again would back the sabre men to lead the Harvard effort. With veteran performers like Terry Valenzuela (who missed the finals last year only because he lost a fence-off for the last slot) and Gordon Rutledge, Marion can count on a reasonably strong showing. While Valenzuela lost out in his bid to make the All-Ivy fencing squad through the proverbial "choke" in the season's finale against Yale (he lost three straight bouts), he is still one of the finest sabre men in the East, and should have little trouble making the finals...
...been said many many times before, and probably will be echoed again and again, but it all comes down to Harvard clutching in the games that really count. Why?. Nobody seems to know for sure, but a look at the record of top rated Harvard teams will show that the pattern exists...
...pastor complains that business is not all that bad. The problem, he says, is that the Government will not let him count as assets $14 million that the cathedral will inherit from people who have written the church into their wills. He insists that cathedral investors are not worried about their investments; they are pious folk who regard the church's securities as a contribution to gospel spreading. As Humbard told TIME Correspondent Richard Ostling last week: "We have never missed an interest payment. We're not in default with our people. If Government regulators try to force...