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CORNELL-PRINCETON: J. Frank Wilson ran into a stalled car, and then Mary and Jimmy ran into the sign that said detour. Similarly, Princeton ran into Harvard, and then Yale. But it's not dead yet, and today the Tigers will give winning a try against Cornell, which is down after seeing its effort to stop Dartmouth turn to disaster in the fourth quarter. Besides, Ed's been up late this week completing his paper on "The Relative Merits of Bell Hops at the Essex and Stop-Here Hotels on the East Side of Ithaca" for Ho Admin 175b. Princeton...
...Nixon presence. One group, though hardly in a position to complain, is the Mexican wetbacks, who since time immemorial have used the beach past the Nixon compound as an invasion route. Situated about 70 miles north of the Mexican border, the San Clemente beach had always provided an excellent detour around the Government checkpoints on the freeway northward. Now the beach is manned by dozens of Secret Service agents with infra-red lenses and every kind of detector imaginable. One night last week four illegal migrants were spotted on the beach by a snoop scope. But rather than turn...
...tarmac hours after departure time-not that that is so unusual in the U.S. these days. Once in the air, passengers can never be sure where they are going to land, especially in winter. The airlines fly regardless of the weather at their destination and frequently have to detour to other cities in order to land. One recent Bulgarian Balkan Airlines flight, destined for Vienna, set down in Budapest. The pilot disappeared, the agent said it was his day off, and the Hungarian airport staff declined to help the passengers. After eleven hours of negotiation, some passengers wangled transit visas...
...when Oskar's father is killed in his grocery cellar by occupying Russian forces. His body falls across the path of some ants that have set up supply lines to a smashed sack of sugar. "The ants found themselves facing a new situation," Grass wrote, "but, undismayed by the detour, soon built a new highway round the doubled-up Matzerath, for the sugar that trickled out of the burst sack had lost none of its sweetness while Marshal Rokossovski was occupying the city of Danzig...
LIKE MOST literature that has a complaining tone, women's liberation magazines don't appeal strongly, at first, to anyone who can't join in the complaint. Especially when the complaint is. "We women are unhappy with our sexual and social role," most readers tend to make a detour around this literature, if they don't jeer and throw tomatoes...