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...three-hour lunches, and they seemed equally tireless in keeping their identities hidden. Last week the young officers of the Armed Forces Movement, the rebel group that overthrew the regime of Marcello Caetano last April and ended half a century of dictatorial rule in Portugal, finally decided to flex their muscles publicly. In short order, the men of A.F.M. forced the resignation of civilian Prime Minister Adeline da Palma Carlos, a moderate, and got their own man installed as his successor. They then presided over the appointment of a new military-dominated Cabinet. As one Lisbon newspaper editor observed...
...standardization--of texts and assignments--will be no answer anyway unless the structuring and presentation of writing assignments is done with some ingenuity. If there's someone in a position to flex his influence sagaciously, he should certainly put (if necessary) a tyrannically gifted teacher of writing in command of Expos. Evans, a very respected scholar, does not teach in the course, as far as I know. Slingerland (who does) is, as far as I know, just another graduate student working on a thesis like many of the rest of us. Whoever appointed her to such a time-consuming...
...differences in bicycles are differences in cost, weight and performance. A $100 bicycle will weigh over 30 pounds, flex in the wrong places when you try to pedal hard, and get you around the city just fine. For a little more money the manufacturers use lighter rims, more reliable components, and take more care in building the frame. If you are willing to pay $160 or more you can get a bicycle with some of the steel replaced with lighter aluminum, and the weight will begin to come down. A cycle like this will carry you in style anywhere...
...iron to get slim, the slim work to get bulk, the got-it-together dudes keep it from disintegrating by frequent geezes of iron. If you have been casting a covetous eye on the iron ... then come on over, get right in, pump up your ego, flash your flex, kill the iron ... add more style to the iron pile...
CRIMSON-BOX JOX--Derek Bok runs a flexible Administration. He flexes on things like ROTC, housing, Radcliffe. Bok will see a new flex Sunday. Muscle flex. The Mass Hall main man has a glass jaw. Crimson...