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...terms. Linus Pauling got rid of the Common Cause a couple of years ago. And if conservatives are against "pressuring, harassing, and demanding," then why did I receive this backing-me-against-the-wall letter asking for money? It just didn't make sense. But then in a flash of hindsight it all came clear. They had enclosed a report which "describes the fashion in which ACU has sought to seize the initiative in behalf of the conservative position--not merely to hold the line against further advances by the left, but to carry the battle over to the offensive...
Though schools are required to house and entertain visiting athletes "on a scale comparable to that of normal student life," the rule is widely ignored. Richard Washington, now a freshman basketball player at U.C.L.A., visited half a dozen schools as a high school senior in Portland, Ore. "They flash you bills when you get there," he reports. "You get an expensive room, a player takes you to a top restaurant and fixes you up with a couple of girls. It's really nice." Students who travel to Las Vegas for a look at the University of Nevada...
...when played on the computer, which causes the varied patterns to unfold much more rapidly. The computer can either place the counters at random or follow the operator's placement instructions. Readily programmed to obey Life's rules, it can then perform the necessary calculations in a flash and display the changing patterns on a cathode ray tube, providing a remarkable kaleidoscopic show. Sometimes the counters quickly settle into what Conway calls "still lifes" - stable, unchanging figures, including those known in the game's already rich jargon as "bee hives," 9, "snakes," 10 or "long ships...
...girl and a very thin girl had been waling up together throughout the show to take pictures of the performers and now when the people saw Donna Fargo bend down to give them a better shot they all started coming up too with their Instamatics and there were flash cubes going off right and left while she kept singing and bending down...
...line is posted at noon each Tuesday during the season. Up to and including the posting, everything is legal, because gambling is legitimate in Las Vegas. When the line is official, though, spotters congregated at Churchill Downs scramble to flash the figures to their bookie bosses across the U.S., usually through a network of pay phones. At that point, because it is a federal offense to transmit gambling information across state lines, professional football betting becomes the nation's most prominent interstate illegality...