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...ways of beating the TV ban. Some 400 fans who were watching the Dolphin game at the Miami Playboy Club (which has a space-age antenna) were interrupted by a police raid that closed the club for not having a license to operate before 5 p.m. on Sundays. Undaunted, diehard "Dol-fans" found a long extension cord and hauled a TV set outside, where they sat under a spreading sea grape tree, munching Bunny Burgers and watching the game while the traffic whizzed by on Biscayne Boulevard. "I almost went out of my mind when the Dolphins got behind...
Kingman Brewster's "1000 male leaders a year" are apparently more intent on getting into law school these days than going to the Harvard-Yale game. One diehard Yale rooter, Larry Veselka '73, glumly predicted that only about 20 per cent of the student body would be lured away from their studies and Thanksgiving vacation to make the journey to Cambridge for today's season finale...
...playing surface, the offense was marching down the field toward what appeared to be an inevitable touchdown. Wheeler in motion, DeMars bucked through the guard hole for a seven-yard gain. "So that's the Restic multiple offense," Trevor thought. "Whew" There was awe in his sigh. The diehard football enthusiasts were sitting up close to the action, so as not to miss a play, or even a signal. Trevor could pick them out by the crimson nylon jackets and the six packs of beer. He could hear them screaming lusty cheers: "Fuck em up. Fuck um up, Beat their...
Lemons. Once the alumni's diehard prejudices had been overcome, the college's chief problem was to find a way to admit women without cutting its male enrollment, since Dartmouth could not afford to increase its physical plant. Kemeny's solution was typically pragmatic: he is adding a summer term, which will allow the school to enroll 800 women students over the next four years at a cost of only $2,000,000, mostly for renovation of dorms, expanding the gym, and adding 25 teachers to the present 275-member faculty. Under the new system, only...
...have been a diehard Democrat all my life, but until our party is returned to the true Democrats, I will fight vehemently to defeat any candidate who would run under McGovern's banner...