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...moorings, automobiles floated away like fishermen's bobbers. In the basement of Forrest Hall, a 140-bed dormitory, 22-year-old Senior Bobby Carter had finished his nightly devotion, reading from II Corinthians, and was just falling asleep when his windowsill fan hurtled across the room on the crest of a wave. Carter swam for the stair well and made it to safety. Three friends drowned in adjoining rooms. In all, 38 members of the college community, including 18 children, perished...
...Allegro Spurioso'--that's the punkdisco-reggae hit that can't seem to leave everybody's lips as they exeunt omnes from Paine Hall each Tuesday and Thursday. Yes, it's 'Disco Music 1,' and, with Disco still riding the crest of popularity that made "A Fifth of Beethoven" a fave-rave among Music concentrators a few years back, this little oeuvre of a gem of a course may very well make it into the Confi Guide next year. That thumping bass, those strings-from-outa-nowhere--Garshk-only-knows ol' Schubert--if he had it to do all over...
...close one, a few Restic innovations and perhaps a surprise at quarterback. Andrew Lavage, a good booter, will kick four field goals for the visitors, but that's all they'll get. Harvard 16, Colgate 12, and you're right, I'm a homer. Besides, I use Crest...
Like all boxers, Ronnie is a seagoer--he's had his share of ups and down. At 21, though, he can still look forward to the biggest crest in his career. When his Marine teammate Leon Spinks fought in the Olympics, he was called. "The Wild Bull of Camp LeJeune." If Ronnie DiNicola were ever to make the Olympic boxing team, he might be known as "The Italian Stallion of Camp Harvard...
...film marks the crest of the "Hitler wave," which began in the early 1970s with a flood of books on the Reichskanzler and his era. Producer Joachim Fest, co-publisher of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and author of Hitler, a massive 1973 biography, drew on film clips of the 1920s, '30s and '40s. Using his book's conclusions as a base, Fest set out to make a movie that would explore how an obscure Austrian postcard artist could win power and put it to such evil purposes. As the newspaper Die Welt noted in its review...