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...once, the paper did not have to seek for advertising; J. Press, Filene's Leopold Morse, and a dozen others took large constant ads to announce themselves as official suppliers of uniforms to the Army, Navy, Waves, and practically every conceivable outfit in the Service. Some news of Harvard crept in, and, as the war neared an end. Harvard news took an equal share of the paper. Twice, the Service News announced the birthdays of Charles Townsend Copeland, his eighty-fourth and eighty-fifth, once announcing Copey as a "Champion Survivor", and twice describing his intention...
...worry. The book is still lull of gems. For those who need definitions of Yiddishisms that have crept into everyday use, Rosten provides examples, many with a fond patina of age: chutzpa is a case of "a man who, having killed his mother and father, asks the court for mercy because he is an orphan, poor schlemiel is a man who "falls on his back and breaks his nose." Some lines are cosmic as well as comic: "The rich have heirs, not children." "Good men need no recommendation and bad men it wouldn't help...
Harvard's ideal of a happy marriage between disciplines crept a little closer to reality this week when it was disclosed that Isabel G. MacCaffrey may join husband Wallace T. MacCaffrey in the ranks of Harvard department chairmen...
...race against Humphrey in Ohio has been rated a toss up and several McGovern people even felt their man held a definite edge. The early returns confirmed this prediction, as McGovern crept to a slim lead edging Humphrey in the industrial towns that should have been has strong ends. But, Big Labor had sunk most of its money into the Muskie campaign and when Muskie folded after Flonda and Wisconsin became wary of spending any more of its resources in the unpredictable prodigal primary run.Throughout election night in Ohio and into the dawn McGovern clung to his lead. But, then...
DAWN had not yet crept over the papyrus swamps along the Tanzanian shores of Lake Victoria when a force of 800 men calling themselves the Uganda People's Militia assembled in the darkness. As invasion forces go, it was small, but it was well-armed and the men were in high spirits. Most of them were former Ugandan soldiers and paramilitary police who had fled the country after the ouster of President Milton Obote, himself in exile in Tanzania. They had spent several months in secret training in Tanzania guerrilla camps, preparing to overthrow the military regime of Uganda...