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When he was chosen to move up to the chairmanship of British Petroleum Co. last month, Deputy Chairman Eric Drake noted that he had already had "a pretty good bash at about every end of the business." Last week Drake was in the midst of a brand-new bash-one that could turn out to be very good indeed. In a lightning move that belied B.P.'s sure-but-slow reputation, Drake set plans to buy B.P.'s way into the American market at a cost of $300 million-one of the biggest single invasions...
Everyone who watched television that afternoon knows that Purdue lost the ball game. But it lost more. It lost Temple Drake. As the happy Minnesota crowd filed out of the park, Temple Drake slipped into the Band dressing room. She got out of her glitteringly oppressive majorette's uniform--hated thing!--and pulled on a Dashiki she'd stuck into her suitcase. Then she went to the bus station and bought a ticket for South Bend...
Sitting there in front of the altar, Temple Drake appears terribly innocent and vulnerable and cute. Her soft blue eyes have been full of a lot of tears lately, but she can buck up and give a big smile if she sees some friendly Notre Dame Resistance workers or a priest with an Omega button or a reporter with a note...
...Temple Drake is calm. She says, "I won't be the last sanctuary," and one can see the quiet determination which is her greatest strength. "For every majorette they lock up," she says, "there are ten more waiting. I knew I had to do something. I know others will follow in my steps...
Some of the students sob, quietly and soulfully. Temple Drake adjusts her halo, and awaits her oppressors...