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...house softball squad, Les Lapins Sauvages, plans to come out of semiperpetual retirement during the convention to take on an Eastern media team headed by NBC Anchorman Tom Brokaw. Eligibility rules for the Square squad should give Brokaw cause for optimism. Says Dietsch: "You have to be a drinker and over 40, or at least have a doctor's certificate to prove partial liver damage...
More subdued are 33 Dunster St. and Ha 'Penny (F21 Mt. Auburn St.), the latter located near the Filly 33D is comfortable and spacious and drinks are surprisingly cheap, though there is little else there to interest the drinker Ha'Penny, although it is mostly frequented by older area regulars, has the best jukebox in the Square, nice waiters, and fairly inexpensive drinks. The low lighting and small tables make it best for couples or small groups, though it becomes overstuffed in the weekend crush. Best on weekday evenings...
...astonishing document: a call for socialism to wipe out the inequalities of capitalism and class, coupled with a stinging indictment of contemporary Socialists: "One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words 'Socialism' and 'Communism' draw toward them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist and feminist in England." Orwell not only sensed the distaste that unemployed miners would feel for such studied eccentricities, he shared the feeling. He also perceived something that was to reverberate in political writings for half a century: ascendant...
...patron blows into the $2,495 machine through a disposable straw. If the user is over the legal limit, the machine flashes a red-light warning that says, DON'T DRIVE. What happens after that is between the drinker and his conscience...
...English fossil hunter first identified some newly discovered teeth as the detritus of extinct reptiles. (Dinosaur means "terrible lizard" in Greek.) Ever since that time, experts have been squabbling almost as furiously as did the reptiles themselves. In the 19th century, Yale's Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope of Philadelphia, the leading collectors in the U.S., feuded so bitterly over fossil sites in the badlands of Wyoming that their teams came close to combat. Today the skirmishing is more genteel, although no less forceful. Some experts, for example, have contended vigorously that dinosaurs must have been warm...