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...very much. Does Hamlet love his mother a little too much? Perhaps. See Hamlet run. Run, Hamlet, Run. "I am on my way to find Uncle Claudius," Hamlet says. On the way he meets a man. "I am Laertes," says the man. "Let us draw our swords. Let us duel...
...four nights, he visited Washington, Wyoming and Colorado, met with G.O.P. leaders in each, made eight speeches, appeared at four news conferences and a TV interview, and shook about 5,000 hands. "He showed us," drawled a Wyoming Republican, "that he really doesn't have horns." Semantic Duel. Even more important in the dehorning process is Rockefeller's earnest effort to neutralize the "liberal" label that frightened many Republicans the last time around. Whenever he can, he makes it clear that he feels that he and his program have been miscast in the semantic duel between liberal...
Saturday's game with Columbia was one of the best college contests in several years. It featured a tense pitching duel between Harvard's sophomore sensation Paul Del Rosel (6-0) and Columbia's hard luck fast ball ace Bob Koehler (2-3). Del Rossi finally won a 2-1, two hit ball game, but suspense was high until the last...
...sooner did Freeman's program arrive on Capitol Hill in January than the Agriculture Secretary and the Farm Bureau began their duel to win over legislators. But the great gladiators overlooked Wisconsin's Democratic Senator William Proxmire, a political pixy who is fond of making dramatic displays of his independence. A member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, Proxmire introduced a measure that would, in effect, scrap the Freeman proposals and continue the present farm program for another year. The Agriculture Committee adopted Proxmire's substitute by a 9-8 vote...
Today, the usual form of the fight is the Mensur, from the Latin for measure, in reference to the set distance between the swordsmen. Unlike a duel, the fighters are not responding to a challenge, and in fact may not even know each other. The Mensur also differs in the extensive safeguards aimed at preventing any killing. Nobody wins, nobody loses. The object is only to subdue den inner en Schweinehnnd (cowardice) by taking a slash with aplomb. Habitual flinchers are booted out of the fraternity. ''This is the way an elite has to be formed." explains...